From Jamie Anderson and Ayelet Baron Dear CEO, When you were growing up many people told you to have big ambitions – to shoot for the moon. And congratulations – you have made it. Not only have you become a member of the ‘C-Suite’, as the CEO you have risen to a level of responsibility that most people only ever dream of. But maybe you are starting to question what success means to you, and to realize that you no longer want to be defined solely by what you do for a living. That this success that you have achieved, that this person that you have become, is not really what you want at all? So what should you do next? Now, of course, many top executives define themselves with and through their work, and all other things in life are subordinate. If you are one of those executives, then you can stop reading now. But if you aspire to something more, to a wider definition of success, then please read on. Since the inception of the industrial age, one of the pinnacles of success has been achieving the level of top management in a large organization. There has been an unwritten manual, leading from being a successful child to a teenager to an adult. It has included getting an education, an education that has opened the
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