Part III. Leadership
The CEOâs role is ultimately about getting the right people working on the right projects. In the beginning, youâre doing everything. Because the first-time CEO doesnât know how to do many of these things, a lot of improvising is involved. The way out of this is actually the process of building a company: the process of finding people who are better than you at doing things, then having them do those things. Rinse, repeat. Being an incompetent accountant or a lousy developer doesnât forestall one from being a tremendous CEO. Over time, other people will take over those roles and do them better than you ever could.
This part is about being the leader of the company. Itâs about what you can delegate and what you canât. Itâs about company cultureâwhat it is, how to make it, and how to fix it. And itâs about the things that go wrong in CEOsâ brains, and how you can troubleshoot yourself to fix them.
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