Can’t wait to start this weekend with a Book Review!
It’s lonely at the top! The remainder of a CEO’s time is typically devoted to administrative responsibilities, such as approving documents, updating the team, approving others decisions, and serving as the official spokesperson for the company.
BUT HALF OF THE JOB AT THE TOP IS ABOUT THINKING! and thinking is fun when we have a reliable framework to guide us.
The Job at the top is no longer to control, but rather to enable, no longer to make decisions, but rather to foster great decision making it all the other parts of the company, no longer to demand performance, but rather to instil zealous drive for performance in everyone else, and no longer to enforce constructive behaviour, but rather to inspire!
Trust is the capstone for everything that’s come before. The message of the first half of this book adds up to a prescription for how to be trusted as the one who thinks at the highest level on behalf of the organization/company. Trust works just as well as a headline for the second half. The message in the second part of the book offers a prescription for how to manage your behaviour so you can catalyze the kind of commitment on the part of others that is requisite for extraordinary accomplishment
Read this book to have an idea of how much capable you will be to handle the job role you are thinking of yourself in 5-6 years!