SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: So clearly, we’re hearing there is some tension between short-term and long-term issues and that is something that comes up for me when I’m talking to CEOs for the podcast or when I’m editing a CEO for hbr.org. On average, the person became CEO at age 44 and they’ve been in the job for about 17 years, which is an extraordinarily long tenure for a CEO but that’s partly because these CEOs are all doing very well so it makes sense. DAN MCGINN: One of the things that people think, and there is some research on this, is that you’re more likely to hire an internal CEO if the company’s doing well, more likely to go outside if the company is not doing well.