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Become Your Own CEO
How CEOs Manage
CEOs know that management is made easy with an effective, well thought out, well conceived plan. Once CEOs have created a plan, with specific action steps, assigning each team member one or more action steps, and creating a system to measure whether those action steps are being performed properly and if so, whether they help achieve the goals, and an accountability system is created to ensure everyone is doing their part and fulfilling their assigned roles, then management is the least of it. CEOs often can assign managerial duties to those beneath them because everyone knows the vision and mission, everyone knows the goals and action steps, everyone knows their role and their responsibilities, and what is in place is akin to a paint by number program where managing a team should be easy, routine and non-controversial.
How CEOs Improvise
Improvisation is a crucial talent the best CEOs have in their quiver. They appreciate surprises happen all the time. Emergencies are a common occurrence. The unexpected is to be expected. So CEOs think several steps ahead, with one or more steps
being unexpected ones, and they are generally prepared for what others are
not, and foresee scenarios others don’t. Improvisation is drawing from one’s
skills and knowledge, one’s planning and processes, and reacting to a situation that wasn’t part of the plan. Good CEOs are rarely surprised because they anticipate surprises and react appropriately to them.
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SECTION 01 THE ROLE OF THE CEO