Leadership: Being a CEO

Thread by @shreyas: As a leader, how can you - Make a major, singular impact - Truly empower team members - Grow them with “stretch tasks” - Create flow for self & others - Avoid burnout Answer:...

‎Show The All Turtles Podcast, Ep Startup Playbook: Being a Good CEO - Mar 20, 2019

In Jim Collins’ best selling management book Good to Great, he demonstrates through massive research and comprehensive analysis that when it comes to CEO succession, internal candidates dramatically outperform external candidates. The core reason is knowledge. As I discussed in Why We Prefer Founding CEOs, knowledge of technology, prior decisions, culture, personnel, et al tend…

If you’re looking to leave your company to work for another, you’ll want to consider this. A few months ago, someone asked me for advice about potentially leaving one company to go work for another…

You’re lucky that I ain’t the president Cause I’ll push the f*#king button and get it over with F&$k all that waiting and procrastinating And all that goddamn negotiating —Bushwick Bill, Fuck a War TOM HAGEN Mike, why am I …

If you a scared motherf%^*&r, go to church —Ice Cube, Go to Church I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only …

What makes a good leader? Look at how you spend your time. Time is the one constant we are all given. No one gets more or less of it than anyone else. As leaders, it’s how

What I’ve observed from effective leaders and tried to keep in mind as a CEO these past few years… “This is somewhat terrifying.” I remember thinking this when I became the CEO of Know Your Team

The number one piece of information you should be focused on as a leader is sharing company vision. Here's exactly how to do it.

I’ve been in board meeting blitz since the summer ended. Many of the companies I work with are well past the startup phase and are well into or even past the growth/scaling phase. And the thought that keeps occurring to me as I go from board meeting to board meeting is the key to success […]

You can’t just make the call if you want to be a good leader — you’ve got to explain it. Leadership is about making the call. Or, at least that’s what we seem to think. We seem to

Be careful not to throw your weight around without knowing it. Yesterday I was in a board meeting for a company I advise. Great group, strong business, profitable, all the good stuff. But the owner…

If I knew what I knew in the past I would have been blacked out on your a** --Kanye West, Black Skinhead Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies,whenever a founder fails to scale or get replaced by a professional CEO,people send me lot of emails. What happened, Ben? I thought founders weresupposed to be better? Are you going to update your "Why We Prefer FoundingCEOs" post? In repsonse to all of these emails: No, I am not going to rewrite that post, but I will write this post. There are three main reasons why founders fail to run the companies they created: MORE

Decision-making is one of the most difficult skills to master as a manager. A startup CEO literally sees a constant stream of decisions to be made: from hiring and firing, to Android or iOS, all th…