Two people break down what CEOs should actually do each day: set vision, close deals, and remove roadblocks. The core move is finding your single biggest constraint and throwing everything at it. Everything else flows from that.
There are only 3 types of meetings a CEO should take: to set the vision, to close a deal, to remove a roadblock. Everything else, that's someone else's meeting. If you're sitting in a room discussing font sizes or debating which shade of blue looks better on the website, you're not being a CEO, you're being a bottleneck. A CEO's time is the most expensive real estate in the company, and every hour you spend in the wrong room is an hour you're not steering the ship towards its next opportunity.
Yeah, she nailed it. The CEO sets the vision. It's not something you really have to do every day, but it is something you need to do. I also agree that the CEO sometimes needs to step in to close a deal, whether that's closing a high-value customer, closing a deal on a critical new hire, closing a deal on a funding round, or closing a deal on an acquisition, or even closing the deal to ultimately sell your business. But the most important meeting that she mentioned was the last one. The number one job of any CEO on any given day is to identify the single biggest constraint in the business right now and to make sure all the resources are surged to unblock that constraint. Literally everything else that you will do as a business owner is downstream from that job. And so if that's where your focus is, if that's the meetings that you're taking on a day-to-day basis, then you're probably winning as a CEO.
