Growth & Leadership Academy

Tom Mohr Founder, CEO and Chief Accelerator at CEO Quest

LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT LEVERAGE

BIGGEST LEVER: CEO effectiveness

Company progress depends on CEO’s capacity to crack the right riddles Start

Finish

Not here

END UP HERE

RIDDLE CRACKING is an act of design

THERE ARE FIVE DESIGN DOMAINS

BELIEF: what mission, vision, values, strategy?

CUSTOMER DESIGN: who is your customer?

PRODUCT DESIGN: how do you reward

your customer?

WORKFLOW DESIGN: how to execute your promise

to your customer?

PEOPLE DESIGN: what team connects right product

with right customer?

THE RIDDLES TO BE CRACKED CHANGE AS YOU SCALE

THE RIDDLES TO BE CRACKED CHANGE AS YOU SCALE

SO THE RIGHT DESIGN MUST MATCH THE RIGHT RIDDLE AT THE RIGHT TIME

FIRST TRACTION IS FOUND WITH FEW RESOURCES. WITH TRACTION COMES RESOURCES + COMPLEXITY.

Early Later

Riddles

Resources

Simple Complex

Constrained Ample

THE SHIFT: FROM SCARCITY-FIGHTING TO TEAM-LEVERAGING

Scarcity focus

Bring Means

Find Partners

Affordable Loss

Make Lemonade

Control vs. Predict

Inspire Others to Action

Create High Performance Teams

Build Cross-Functional Partnerships

Deliver Consistent Execution

Lead from Within

Team focus

AS CEO, HOW DO YOU BECOME AN ADAPTIVE LEADER?

FOUNDING  CEOs  START  WITH   FOUNDING CEOs MUST LEARN • Skills • Competencies

• Self-Awareness • Pattern Recognition

For Each Stage Find The Right Riddle And Design The Right Solution

Your Board Your Exec Team

Your Employees Your Network

Your Coach Your Peer Group

SELF-AWARENESS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION

COMES FROM TRANSPARENCY AND INQUIRY

PRACTICAL TAKEAWAYS

Belief bend it

Customer Design precisely define it

Product Design relentlessly improve it

People Design efficiently empower it

Workflow Design simplify and automate it

THE KEY QUESTION: HOW FAR CAN YOU

GROW?