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The Great CEO Within

The Tactical Guide to Company Building

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The Great CEO Within

By: Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Misha Talavera
Narrated by: Joe Scalora
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Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback.

Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to complete that training, especially at the helm of a rapidly growing company. Now you have the guidance you need in one book.

©2019 Matt Mochary (P)2020 Upfront Books Leadership Management & Leadership Business Management

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a must listen. had to slow down the speed as it as so dense in useful info. also got the printed book to reread some sections.

packed with useful info

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Brilliant - extreme value to volume ratio

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Great book on systems and processes on how to build a great startup and business. The right amount of detail and concept to work with.

Great book

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Coach of Brex, rippling , gramarly

celebrate!!
appreciate
ask what’s great about your company!
wealth management! index funds & rebalancing! 10m - 100m!

work hours!
empathises OUTPUT! not hours!! / emphasis how much did we move the needle!!

hard working is a choice!!! / inspiring
tracking goals, habits, agreements, creating fun!

company is moving forward
they are heard!

amplified!
donut 🍩 to connect with employees!


promotion!
grade level planning!
every position / they clearly see what’s required

GLP! 150employees! 25 - 50 employees!!!

NVC /Radical cantor!!

GOal tracking!
evernote / omani focus, things!





Set vision and goals for the company!!! / quarterly!!!! 4DX vs OKR
2. Communicate with everyone
3. Track weekly lead & lag measures
4. Elicit feedback back right / needs work!!

200 peopl
6-8 weeks

Hire CEO

Original team members perform amazingly well!


Engineering team
- architect
- Project manager
- IC

Use PEO firm!!
Employees become employees of PEO

1-1
Team
Company wide (all hands)
Office hours
Company wide social event
Quarterly planning offsite!!!!! / it has to be an offsite!

Team meeting could be 3h until everyone learns to record everything, then it become less


1. What are their goals
2. What's stopping / challenges
3. Ideal solutions

Please tell me more!

Seeds
Spears
Nets!!


First seeds (friends, investors) / then spears / then nets!!!!


3 - 6 people pre PMF

CEO - sales
2 engineers

6 CEO
3 engineers
1 designer
1 ops

Spectacular!!!

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at times this is more applicable to soft companies which is something that we're not almost services based and potentially fast growth companies and we want to be false growth but we're not right now overall they're good book

some great insights in here

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