The Four Dilemmas of the CEO: Mastering the make-or-break moments in every executives career

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Momentum is your greatest ally--with it you can do anything without it you will stall. As CEO you hate surprises especially the kind that undermines momentum--yours or the organization you lead. Every CEOs journey is unique. However there exists a very predictable but previously unknown pattern: the CEO life cycle. The Four Dilemmas of the CEO outlines the common challenges that every CEO will face during their tenure irrespective of geography or industry. Once understood action can be taken to break through these glass ceilings that cause CEOs to get stuck in the business while their mandate for working on the business is continually diverted. Framed within the life cycle of a CEO the Four Dilemmas are: 1. Youre in charge of everything but cannot completely trust anything. 2. You know that todays executive cannot deliver tomorrows results. 3. How do you engage the full capability of your executive working on the business when they are at capacity working in the business? 4. At what point does the price of remaining personally relevant outweigh your other options? In the first book to focus on these four issues collectively the authors draw on their decades of experience as trusted advisers across a range of industries to show every executive how to recognize and anticipate the individual dilemmas master them and accelerate through them. With a foreword by Clayton M. Christensen Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School and author of The Innovators Dilemma.