Atlanta CEO Council Breakfast with the CEO of Red Hat

The Atlanta CEO Council put on a great event yesterday morning. As part of their guest speaker series, they brought in Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat, to share his vision as well as lessons learned being the COO of Delta Airlines. After hanging out with Lance Weatherby of the ATDC and Andy Monin of VendorMate, the presentation began. Here were Jim’s key recommendations for CEOs:

• Focus, focus, focus – he mentioned three things they focus on for a year and work hard to say no to suggestions that don’t fall in those categories
• Build repoire in person with all lines of company employees – he talked about meeting with 12,000 flight attendents over a six week period (350 at a time) as a way to help with customer service at Delta

It was a great event.