Synopsis
Aligned Action: The Key to CEO Effectiveness focuses on the critical question that each CEO must wrestle with as a company grows and changes: What should I be working on right now? Based on Ron Wilder's fifteen years of experience working closely with CEOs in a wide range of industries, this book is an essential resource and field guide for every CEO. Through the book, you will learn: Where to focus your work as CEO by applying a holistic framework for diagnosing the root causes of performance in your business. How to create aligned action such that each individual in your company is working on the right things in the right way to support the goals of the company. How to grow as a CEO in your ability to engage expertise --- and how this skillset is critical to creating and sustaining growth in sales and profitability. Short and to the point, Aligned Action: The Key to CEO Effectiveness immediately illuminates where you should focus your time and energy as CEO. As your company grows, you'll consult this book frequently to guide your work and determine where to focus right now.
About the Author
Ron Wilder serves as a strategic advisor, coach, and teacher to business leaders worldwide. Ron works with CEOs, business owners, executives, entrepreneurs, and experts in companies ranging in size from one-person start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. In 2003, Ron founded Aligned Action, a strategy-focused executive coaching and advisory firm. In Ron's work with clients, he assists leaders in creating big opportunities, taking the seeds of a vision and crafting a strategy to realize it, and aligning the organization to accelerate sales growth and profitability. Ron's work is typically behind-the-scenes, such that these results occur through the leader who is rapidly developing into a much more effective and powerful leader in the process. Ron's career began in Silicon Valley, where he worked with R.B. Webber & Company, a boutique strategy consultancy and venture capital firm. He held sales, marketing, and corporate development roles for two venture-backed start-ups. Ron holds a B.S. in Physics from Emory University and a M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve and deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. Ron enjoys playing classical piano and is an active practitioner and student of the martial arts. He lives outside of Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and two daughters. Ron writes extensively on business and leadership at his blog.
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