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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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Foreword

What Got You Here, Got You Halfway There

Congratulations, you’ve just landed on the shortlist to become CEO! You have every reason to imagine you’re the obvious choice to be selected. You’re picturing yourself standing on the one-yard line in the Super Bowl of corporate leadership, and you’re absolutely certain you’ve heard the board and current CEO talk about your achievements in such glowing terms that they’ve implied you’ve basically scored already. You might even feel their chummy warmth over intimate dinners with your board members lauding your progress. You’re confident that you’re reaching an all-powerful place with ultimate control to finally do what you’ve always known is right and to do it your way.

Well, let me pop that ...

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