Evolving CEO Journey: Adapting to Change

Name: Evolving CEO Journey: Adapting to Change
Uploaded: 2023-06-25T09:25:42+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: A CEO reflects on how the role demands constant reinvention. Quarterly priorities swing wildly, from hiring a marketing leader to recruiting a VP of…

25 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A CEO reflects on how the role demands constant reinvention. Quarterly priorities swing wildly, from hiring a marketing leader to recruiting a VP of engineering. Last year's biggest shift: the business world moved from chasing growth at all costs to balancing growth, burn, and margins.

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Uh, uh, I think that the CEO journey is a unique one in the sense that every quarter it feels like something radically different is at the top of the list. So like whether you're hiring for a certain executive in that 90-day window, it could be marketing one quarter and the next one is VP of engineering. And it's like they're kind of a world apart. Um, and so I feel like I'm constantly getting a crash course on what is the next thing that I need to learn at a surface level just to be enough dangerous to enable experts. And so right now, I would say that for me, over the past year, the existential sort of crisis was the macro environment is changing. It was going from growth, growth, growth to growth, burn margin.