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The role of the CEO: managing yourself – High Growth Handbook
you will need to create massive awareness (marketing), walk many customers through the sales process (sales), hold those customers’ hands as they set up and use your product or service (customer success), harden your infrastructure to withstand many users at once (DevOps), get rid of technical debt and add all the features promised in your roadmap
... See moreMatt Mochary • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
It does require a diagnosis of your organization. Also, what are the key risks to the business? What are the most important two or three things? You want the things that are one, two, or three to report to the CEO. Fundamentally, what makes or breaks the company should probably be reporting to the CEO. Because ultimately the CEO is responsible and
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
I’m a big self-awareness advocate, and I would say there are two things you’ve really got to spend a good amount of time on as a founder or CEO and a leadership team. The first one is, what are things that only the founder/CEO can do and which are existential to the company? What must they spend time on? One of those is often recruiting additional
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions.