LinkedIn: Peter or Deborah Most Likely to Lead Your Company
What’s in a name? According to LinkedInsights data released by professional networking site LinkedIn, the top five names for male CEOs around the world are Peter, Bob, Jack, Bruce, and Fred, while their female counterparts go by Deborah, Sally, Debra, Cynthia, and Carolyn.
What’s in a name? According to LinkedInsights data released by professional networking site LinkedIn, the top five names for male CEOs around the world are Peter, Bob, Jack, Bruce, and Fred, while their female counterparts go by Deborah, Sally, Debra, Cynthia, and Carolyn.
LinkedIn also found that U.S.-based CEOs tend to have four-letter names (like Jack and Fred), adding that the length of names varies by field — sales trends toward four-letter names like Chip, Todd, and Trey, while longer names like Rajesh, Jeremy, and Andrew are the trend in engineering.
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