A typical CEO spending its time, attending meetings, strategizing the council, and, in the case of a semiconductor giant ASML, wiping questions about how to get to where it is.
This is a clear request. As the CEO of Litography Group Fortune 500 Europe, Christoph Fuken is in charge of one of the most strategically important companies in the world. Its 3.5 million euros (3.6 million dollars) is paid last year, and more in the accumulated stocks, it also does not harden the envy.
But talking to Norges Bank Investment Management Management Nicolai Tangen on their In a good company Podcaste, Fuoke pointed out that the issue is highlighted as a consistent drawback among the ambitious young people.
“I see too many young people who come to me and they want to be the CEO and they ask me,” How we became CEO? “And I try to explain to them as much as possible that this is an almost ridiculous question,” said Fuoke.
“This is not the right question. The right question is: what will I do tomorrow, what really excites me, what really brings from me the best?
“Because when you go and do it every day, it may be the likelihood that you will become the CEO – probably a bigger chance you don’t, but you will equally do what brings you joy, energy and most importantly brings it to people around you.”
Fuwike, which says that in the early years he never hid ambitions for C-Suite, says it should spread to subjects that young people decided to study at the university, claiming it is more important to do what you like, what to take a career.
ASML CEO says this approach to career development can help segment progression into two parts, before learning to use them.
“I think the first part of your career is to prove myself, I really believe in this,” said Fuwike, adding that this part of his life ended when he took responsibility for the products at ASML more than a decade ago.
“And then you look forward to, you say: good what next … What can I do to help and where is the place where I can do what is important?”
The role of Fuque has turned into its time into asml. For $ 230 billion, the group costs more than when he joined the 2008 company.
The stock in the group was subjected to a ball after the Covid-19 pandemic, first during a wide increase in demand for technological stocks and again during the AI boom.
The company supplies its lithographic machines to the world’s largest companies, including NVIDIA, allowing advanced semiconductors used in AI applications.
As a key part of the global supply chain, the role of foquest can only grow.
Editor’s Note: First version of this article appeared on Fortune.com on February 12, 2025.
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