Promote Yourself to CEO

Polish the skills and capabilities you need to boost your growth, profitability, and ease of operation

Michael Van Horn 

#5 in the series.

The more your company grows, the harder it can be to grow yet further. Why? Because the management practices and habits that worked when your company was smaller are no longer adequate.

You might be the main bottleneck. You may not be “presidential” enough in your management style. You must “promote yourself to CEO”—that is, focus on executive responsibilities and be less of a floor manager and worker.

Easier said than done! While you are trying to keep your focus on the entire forest, many things conspire to keep you stuck in the trees and underbrush.

The exercises in this book will help you upgrade your management style, management practices and management structure—for yourself and for your key people—so that you can take your company where you want it to go.

Promote Yourself to CEO

Topics covered

01

How not to manage a growing business

02

Turn ‘em loose vs. hold ‘em tight. Laissez faire vs. micro-manager

03

The ladder of executive capabilities

04

There can be no empty rungs on the ladder

05

How do you interact with your managers?

06

Job description of a successful CEO

07

Building your growth team

08

Play to your strengths, compensate for your weaknesses

09

Rate your skills and your company’s capabilities

10

The management grid: how to get things off your job description

11

Organization charts for dysfunctional companies—and for successful ones

12

The “Everyone reports to me” syndrome

13

Breaking through plateaus, bottlenecks, and barriers

14

How to upgrade your own skills (Skills are closely linked to attitudes.)

15

How to manage the expert

16

Create development programs for your key people. “Don’t build your company’s growth around the limitations of your employees.”

Warm up exercise

From the workbook

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