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The role of the CEO: managing yourself – High Growth Handbook
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To prevent this from happening, group tasks into functions and assign each function to one—and only one—person. These are your areas of responsibility. Apple pioneered AORs in Silicon Valley, but now most successful tech companies use this method. Create a document that lists all of the company’s functions and, for each, the directly responsible in
... See moreThe trick to being effective at this is that you have to get really good at saying no and just not doing things. There are a lot of things that are urgent but not important. The hard part of being a good CEO is that you have to be willing to let some things fall apart. You don’t have enough time to do everything well. And in practice, what that mea
... See moreIt 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
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