CEO experiences
"You're in Charge, now what" contains its own version of an 8-point plan:
Prepare yourself during the countdown
Align expectations
Shape your management team
Craft your strategic agenda
Start transforming culture
Manage your boss
Communicate
Avoid common pitfalls
Beyond the plan itself, the most valuable thing about this book is the advice of prominent CEOs who ran the full spectrum of success and failure - from Gerstner to Nasser.
As GE's current CEO Jeff Immelt says:
"Leadership is an intense journey into yourself, particularly if you want to go all the way. It's how far you're going to go, how fast you're going to learn, how muhc you can improve. You never get the top job because of what you know. It's about how fast you can learn and how much you can adapt."
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