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261 - Why 50% of New CEOs Fail in the First 18 Months (and What to Do About it)
Nobody tells you that the job you were promoted for is not the job you now have.
You earned the corner office because you were excellent at something. Finance, operations, commercial, product. That excellence is real, and it is exactly what makes the next part so hard, because the instinct that got you here is to go back to it. When the pressure rises, you return to the function you know best, where you can still be the smartest person in the room and feel useful by lunchtime.
It looks like diligence. It is actually avoidance. And it is why so many new CEOs come unstuck inside their first…
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