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Welcome to the 68th edition of the good reads newsletter by Malpani Ventures. Sharing your weekly dose of articles for this weekend’s reading!
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The CEO Job Description: In Reductionist Form
https://kellblog.com/2023/07/30/the-ceo-job-description-in-reductionist-form/
Dave Kellogg, is a personal favourite of mine, and this a great piece on articulating a CEO’s role:
Marketing exists is to make sales easier.
HR exists to help managers manage.
Professional services exists to maximi.ze ARR while not losing money.
Customer success exists to get renewals and spot expansion opportunities.
And the CEO? The CEO’s job is to get what matters right
The job is to get what matters right. The difficult first step is to figure out what matters. The second step is to focus most of your energy on that. The third step, perhaps the most difficult of all, is to ignore or delegate almost everything else.
The Art of Self-Awareness: A Founder’s Guide to Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses
A wholesome read for founders:
Successful leaders keep an eye on the personality traits that have helped them achieve their success. Strengths without self-awareness become weaknesses. Strengths examined regularly become superpowers
Dangers of Copying Success
There is a strong pull to copy things they say because they have been incredibly successful. But…
Are they successful because of the specific advice?
Is it applicable to my company?
Is the advice no longer valid for some reason?
Until next time!