1.1. Pressures Leaders Are Under
Let us look at the CEO's world. It is very, very different than most people imagine. All training for CEOs is on the job. There really is no school for becoming a CEO. A chief operating officer, watching from next door, second-guessing her boss, certainly thinks that she could run the place better. Yet the moment she gets the top position, the new incumbent instantly realizes that the job is completely different from anything that she could have possibly imagined. The new CEO also notices that she is alone, there is only one CEO in the organization, and everyone is watching.
Every single day for a CEO is a new learning experience because there is no manual and no one to train him. To his surprise, the CEO discovers ...
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