"Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--
Winner of CMI Management Book of the Year 2019 New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Everything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Never put a foot wrong. In fact, people who have become CEOs have on average had five to seven career setbacks on their way to the top. Drawing on the biggest dataset of CEOs in the world -- in-depth analysis of 2,600 leaders, drawn from a database of 17,000 CEOs, as well as 13,000 hours of interviews -- The CEO Next Door is crammed full of myth-busting and counter-intuitive insights in what it really takes to get ahead. Discover the way actual CEOs of top companies think and behave, and the kind of traits to develop if you want to make your ambitions a reality and take your career right to the top.
You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a "master class in building a business." —Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.
From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author! Want to achieve breakthroughs and get exceptional results? Discover the system that successful growth companies have used to achieve their results. All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. In order to burst through ceiling after ceiling and innovate with growth, a company must develop a reliable system that prompts leaders to be proactive and pivot when the need arises. You also need to learn simple systems to empower everyone in your company to become and stay focused, aligned, and accountable. In Rhythm, you’ll discover all this and more, including: • How to identify potential setbacks and avoid them; • Think-Plan-Do rhythm to fire up and maintain great execution; • The inside scoop from growth companies showing you how they turned their potential setbacks into opportunities; • Practical tools that you can use immediately; • The habits you should start building to achieve your own breakthroughs. Patrick Thean’s process applies to any growing business and ensures that your organization gets into the habit of achieving success, week after week, quarter after quarter, year after year. Get your copy now and start leading your business towards successful growth today!
Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary-no question- but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to BIG growth in your company. In his first book, Make BIG Happen, Mark Moses outlined the four questions that formed the foundation of CEO Coaching International, an executive coaching firm that has helped over 875 companies reach extraordinary revenue and EBITDA growth. Now, in Making BIG Happen, CEO Coaching International's proven set of best practices have been translated into a simple three-step process, supported by over 30 tools, to show leaders how to achieve extraordinary business growth.
A Silicon Valley veteran and author of the bestsellerHigh Tech Start Upreveals the nature of unfair advantage -- that holy grail for every company, the mysterious quality that separates successful businesses from the nine out of ten that fail -- and then shows how to create an unfair advantage, build it into a business plan, and use it to maximum effect.Nesheim's first book, originally self-published during Silicon Valley's wild west days in the 1990s, quickly moved from underground hit to business bestseller. He witnessed the incredible highs and lows of the Internet bubble, and he got an intimate look at why some companies weathered the storm while others went under. Now, inThe Power of Unfair Advantage,Nesheim shows you how to bring the pioneer spirit to your new enterprise -- whether you are starting a new company or trying to breathe new life into an old dog. Unfair advantage is an enduring but often overlooked dynamic and a crucial aspect of any successful business endeavor.To show you how to attain unfair advantage over your competitors, he begins with a clear model: Outsource everything you are not good at, concentrate on those things that can be differentiated, and strive for a unique, consistent difference that cannot be copied. Integrating these maxims with other essential elements, he demonstrates, with dozens of case studies, how to orchestrate unfair advantage through marketing, sales, engineering, and operations.Unfair advantage can take many forms. Pager maker RIM rocketed to the top of the mobile wireless email market with Blackberry by employing an unfair advantage that it alone possessed -- pager technology and pager infrastructure. Alternately, an unfair advantage can come from a unique relationship with a strategic alliance partner, as when Flextronics pulled Handspring out of a life-threatening crisis.The Power of Unfair Advantageis an essential handbook for every manager who is responsible for introducing a new product or service and every entrepreneur and would-be who plans to start a company. Unfair advantage is here to stay -- learn how to lasso its power, rise above the competition, and build a flourishing, long-lasting business.
This bestselling all-in-one guide to the event planning business is back and better than ever, fully updated and revised to reflect the very latest trends and best practices in the industry. This handy, comprehensive guide includes forms, checklists, and tips for managing events, as well as examples and case studies of both successful and unsuccessful events. Judy Allen (Toronto, ON, Canada) is founder and President of Judy Allen Productions, a full-service event planning production company.
CEOs are calling “The Effective CEO” a "game-changer" for how they approach their day. Inside "The Effective CEO" you'll discover the "CEO Amplified Effectiveness Method" This battle-tested process was developed specifically for CEOs and this book will take you step-by-step through how to quickly and easily get clear on what to focus on and prioritize, properly plan and structure your days, and consistently execute at the highest level. So instead of spending your days feeling stretched thin, overwhelmed or like there are never enough minutes to get everything done, you'll feel far more focused, in control of your time and able to prioritize what actually matters. Meaning that not only will you transform what you get done in a day - but you'll also be able to look back knowing the work you did pushed the business forward, instead of just being spent on reactionary problems. This is theONLYSystem You'll Ever Need To Take Back Control Of Your Time And Become More Effective In Your Role. I've taken everything I've learned over the last 6 years of helping CEOs, business leaders from around the world to consistently perform at their best, and broken it down in this short book for you. The book is only 151 pages, meaning you can quickly and easily read in a couple of hours and I'll show you how to immediately implement what you learn. A glimpse of what you'll discover includes: The proven 5-step process to get clear on exactly what you need to focus on and prioritize, along with how to delegate or let go of everything else. I took a client through this recently and he removed over 50% of his to-do list, all while freeing up 15 hours to focus on the tasks that actually drive the business forward How to structure your days and weeks in a way that allows you to maximize growth, manage your workload and defends your time, instead of allowing your days to be consumed by reactionary problems. This planning process was developed specifically for CEOs and will transform what you get done in a day I'll also give you my signature 180-second drill that resets your intention, clears mental fatigue on command and releases stress, energizing you inside out. Clients have told me that this quick drill is so effective, they’ve ditched their coffee and do this instead. The secret to structuring a life of freedom on your terms, so that you can crush your goals, without sacrificing time for your health, relationships and the other things that matter most (and I’ll even show you how to shift your focus from work to being present and in the moment) CEO tools, strategies and techniques to stay focused, manage stress and consistently perform at a higher level And so much more. By the end you'll be able to amplify your productivity, time management and performance, ensuring you can maximize your time, lead with confidence and become a more effective CEO. The book also includes several bonuses. BONUS 1 "The Effective CEO Digital Planner" - My clients call this a game-changer for how they approach their days and it'll transform how you structure your time and what you get done in a day. BONUS 2 "The Effective CEO Planning Process" This training video will show you how to effectively plan and structure your days to maximize your time BONUS 3 "The CEO In Control 5-Day Challenge" In this 5-day challenge, you'll get daily videos showing you how to get out of a reactive state, confidently make more effective decisions, develop your intuition and lead with confidence. BONUS 4 Access to the "Impact Driven CEOs" Facebook Community This will be your go to place to meet other CEOs, exchange ideas, share best practice, ideas on leadership, mindset, productivity and ways to become more effective in your CEO role.
Plan for success No one would embark on a business venture without a thorough and coherent plan. So why are so many of us happy to stagger through life with no real plan – just going with the flow, seeing what happens? It’s time we gave our lives the same importance we give to our business exploits. The Personal Business Plan offers a practical, field-tested method for effectively planning out what you want from life and exactly how to achieve it. It will change the way you look at yourself, your job and your career. This is an essential toolkit for all ambitious career professionals who want to know how to thrive in their job and simultaneously become a happier and more effective person. Creating your own personal business plan will help you to define your purpose, plan your actions, break through limiting beliefs and reinvent yourself. Written by a top executive coach and head-hunter with the world’s leading Talent Management and Executive Search firm who has changed the lives of thousands of people A field-tested methodology for identifying your mission, setting your critical success criteria, defining your agenda, keeping to the point and become more fulfilled and happier A complete life view – how to excel in your chosen career and simultaneously enjoy a happy personal life