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How to Be an Effective CEO

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Jul 03, 2009

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This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.

First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't forget that it is not necessarily telling the truth. You earn the title of CEO through your actions and your results. You still have your training wheels on. Fortunately, there is probably more advice available on how to be an effective CEO than almost any other subject. This chapter gives you a quick guide, but do invest the time to read the classics, particularly:

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"The Effective Executive," by Peter Drucker,

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," by Stephen Covey.

These are timeless classics. Their authors do not attempt to create any modern theory or expound on any particular business or market trend. The books work because they are based on observation. The authors observed effective people to find out what they did right.

The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker

Drucker's "Effective Executive" was

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Comments (8)

Jenniferl,

Jul 03, 2009

To be a man biased

Jenniferl,

Jul 03, 2009

To be a man

Jenniferl,

Jul 03, 2009

To be a man

Jenniferl,

Jul 03, 2009

To be a man

Lalitmawkin,

Jul 04, 2009

A lovely post--Peter Drucker was a management philosopher and whatever he has written would stay as Laws of Physics--very difficult to cahllenge--you may reword and put the same thing differently but Drucker is like a father supreme and i like reading Stephen Covey but Drucker is like shakespeare in Literature--