ACEO

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Σωκράτης

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey Firestone

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.

Ross Perot

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S. Truman

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

Warren Bennis

ACEO

The Association of Chief Executive Officers (ACEO) is a technocratic, non profit organization.

Its members, professional CEOs from all over Greece, manage companies covering all sectors of business activities in our country.

The Association represents the top managers and it is the only organization of this kind in Greece.

It was established in 1986 with the purpose to contribute to the continuous improvement of the level of top management and to make good use of the knowledge and the experience of its members for the benefit of Greek economy.

The ACEO’s activities:

Organizes lectures and meetings on advanced methods and practices in top management as well as economic and leadership issues
Conducts Surveys and Publications
Hosts the annual Leadership Conference, which is considered one of the most important business events in Greece
Runs a number of programmes specially designed for its members in collaboration with private sector experts (e.g. Health care program, Career Support program, Legal Advice program etc)
Issues the quarterly magazine «Leading»
Submits proposals to the government officials on current economic issues
Conducts the trimonthly survey «CEO Index» which reflects the CEOs’ opinion on current leadership and economic issues

Our Association is a member of the CEC European Managers which is based in Brussels and is the third largest social partner in the European Union.