A short spoken excerpt from a YouTube clip by Alisa Cohn offering leadership advice to first-time founder-CEOs. Cohn emphasizes that many new CEOs lack prior management experience, must present themselves as the boss, recognize they cannot do everything, hire the right people, delegate, and bring the team along to scale the company.
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Well, you know, if you think about it all CEOs, first time founders. CEOs are brand new leaders in many ways. They've never run a company before. So what they really have to think about is how do they exhibit themselves as a CEO? Very often they are young. They've had no management or leadership experience before in their lives, and suddenly they're the boss. Their suggestions are orders. They have to remember to relate to themselves as the boss. And everyone is looking up to them and also looking to them for the direction of the company. One thing that they should pay attention to is to recognize they can't do it all themselves. They must find the right people around them. They, they must delegate once they find the right people around them. And they must bring people along so that they don't have just two hands, but they have all the hands of all the people around them.