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CEO Ready
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CEO Ready

by Mark Thompson, Byron Loflin, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
November 2025
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 41m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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9 Honor Culture, Comfort Customers, and Manage Celebrity Employees and customers must believe you’re ready

Sarah Hirshland was asked to consider becoming CEO of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), an organization she described as “a burning house” in 2018. Mark coached her minutes before her congressional testimony on behalf of the Olympic team, as it reeled from its worst scandal in its history. The most harrowing systemic ethical failure in modern sports history occurred when physician Larry Nassar, unchecked by the team for years, abused three hundred athletes. High-profile athletes including Rachael Denhollander, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and later, gymnastics legend Simone Biles courageously stepped forward ...

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