The Great CEO Within

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Whether you have 10,000 people reporting to you, or just one, I promise you'll take away something useful from The Great CEO Within. The author, Matt Mochary, coaches startup CEOs from the likes of Coinbase, Plaid, Reddit, Grammarly, Postmates, and more. The book includes the five primary sections shown below, and Matt gets straight to the good stuff in each.

Individual Habits 

Group Habits 

Infrastructure 

Collaboration 

Processes

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Chapter seven is half a page and starts with the title "when you say it twice write it down." POW, you immediately get distracted while thinking about how many times you say things over and over each day. Solution? Tell someone to document it internally where all employees can easily access it, or take down the obligatory "teamwork" poster and plaster it on the wall. A scenario, the needed management framework, and how best to implement it. That structure is what you're going to get in every chapter.

Matt also folds in wisdom from his mentees and other leading professionals. You'll learn about how to implement RAPID decision-making from Bain & Company, and David Allen's Getting Things Done framework. Make sure to have something to take notes with because if you read this book right, it should look like a mess of tabs and margin notes when finished.

Tim Roe