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What High-Performing Executives Still Miss About Becoming CEO

4 May 2026 · 1 min

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Greg Stevenson tells high-performing executives that strong performance alone won't make you CEO. The ones who get picked do five specific things in the year before the right opportunity appears, and most senior leaders aren't doing them.

If you're a senior executive who wants a CEO role and you're waiting for your performance to speak for itself, I need to tell you something. Performance is the entry ticket. It's not the deciding factor. The executives who get chosen are the ones doing 5 specific things in the 12 months before the right role comes up. Most executives aren't doing any of them. Watch the full video. The link's in the bio.