Do You Really Want to Lead?
When Penny Herscher, a veteran tech leader in Silicon Valley, stepped into her first chief executive role when she was thirty-six, she thought she was prepared. That confidence soon evaporated. “After six months, I realized I had no clue how to be a CEO,” she said. “I just kept finding myself in situations where I didn’t feel like I had the experience and the tool set to know what to do, and I kept waiting for permission to make decisions.” Then one of her board members took her aside to give her some coaching. “You’re looking to the board for permission,” he told her. “And you need to understand that we’re going to give you advice, but you have to make your own decisions. Because if we give you bad advice ...
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