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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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Conclusion Permission to Be Happy What anchors you, what fuels you, what lights your sky

When you spend so much time with CEO candidates, as we do, you come to appreciate just how harrowing the process is for people who’ve spent their lives aspiring to this achievement. We romanticize actors striving to make it in Hollywood, athletes battling to get to the pros, inventors devoting their lives to that one breakthrough, but no less a human drama is playing out in companies worldwide when the CEO role opens. Many will get only one shot at it.

This crash course on how to manage the process—and win over the seven key stakeholders—will improve your odds when your moment comes. It’s difficult to summarize all of what you’ve read to this point, ...

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