The Lonely CEO: A Series on How to Manage Being a Startup CEO

Scott Maxwell

September 25, 2010

The CEO role is a lonely role. I just completed a series of posts on the lonely CEO, how the CEO can improve the situation and how people surrounding the CEO can help. The posts include:

1. The difficulties that the CEO has during the expansion stage that help to create the lonely CEO

2. Some thoughts and suggestions for:

From a summary perspective, the goal of the CEO is getting the right people to do the right things right. If the CEO works toward this goal and the important people surrounding the CEO take a shared responsibility to work toward this goal, then the CEO will be a lot less lonely, the company will have much better performance, and everyone will have a lot more fun!

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