So have many new CEOs. But business is business, and the Youth Culture smacked headlong into last April's reality check. The Knot CEO David Liu relies on seasoned staff, with a CFO recruited from Random House and a COO from Bertelsmann. Successful business is about pattern recognition. With business wisdom on your staff, you might live to see 50.
Survivors are hybrids.
DotCEOs must mutate quickly. The panel agreed, it's adapt or die. It's a blend of go-go, energizing innovation with monthly, disciplined, methodical reviewing of results. The experts inclined toward a young dog who's learned old tricks. Note that in the conference poll finding on problems that most concerned dotCEOs, six of the seven might easily be voiced by traditional chief executives.