Becoming a CEO is easy--just take a few minutes to change your
job description on social-media sites and call up a printer to
send you some new business cards. Presto! You’re now a CEO.  But
claiming the title and excelling in the role are, of course,
completely different things. What separates the hoards of self-
styled CEOs of half-baked startups and those that actually build
world-changing companies?  Someone recently asked just this on
question-and-answer site Quora, and some of the tech world’s top
names, including investors, founders, and those who research the
topic, took the time to weigh in with lists of key
characteristics. What traits emerged as consistent themes?   Top
VC Mark Suster responded to the question with a simple 13-point
list of key traits. Resiliency is No. 4. Robert Scoble, who
studies CEOs for Rackspace and has interviewed thousands of
CEOs, also lists a dozen important qualities--which often
overlap with Suster’s--but also provides a bit more explanation
for each. For example, he agr