You Were Promoted to CEO. Nobody Told How.: The Operating System for First-Time Chief Executives

The strange thing about becoming a CEO is that the day you get the title is the day everyone stops telling youhow to do the job.Suddenly you are the person with the answers, except no one mentioned that the answers don't come with thechair. So you improvise - a little strategy here, a hiring decision there, a finance meeting you mostly nodthrough - and you call it leadership because there's no one left to correct you. This book is the operatingsystem behind the CEO course I teach, shaped over twenty years working alongside the chief executives, operating officers, and boards of growing companies, and nearly a decade running one of my own. It treats therole not as a personality you're supposed to have but as ten connected systems you can install on purpose: strategy, team, product, revenue, money, decisions, change, and the operating partnership that lets you leadwithout doing everything yourself.If you were handed the title and left to invent the rest, start here.