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This is a great opportunity, I'm excited for your inevitable professional growth from doing this. To help my own professional growth I have now shadowed 5 CEOs

This is a great opportunity, I'm excited for your inevitable professional growth from doing this. To help my own professional growth I have now shadowed 5 CEOs for 1 day each and have found it the highest ROI growth/training exercise I've done. I have a doc that provides lots of advice, templates etc feel free to use and share: https://goo.gl/BJ8GTT https://goo.gl/BJ8GTT My general pieces of advice - every CEO is different, so do this 1-2 times a year to gain a breadth of insights - take advantage of lunch time and the few mins between meetings so that you can ask follow up questions from your observations - to add value back to the CEO you're shadowing, summarise your observations of them and their business - talk to 3-5 employees (all levels) to understand from them what makes their CEO great and what they could improve on - you'll gain lots of insights into how to run a startup, culture learnings etc so don't limit your learning to just CEO insights Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Timbo

brianwawok 8y ago
How many people can find 5 CEOs to shadow 1-2 times a year?
- timwiththebo 8y ago
  To be clear, my recommendation is to shadow 1-2 CEOs a year.
- sombremesa 8y ago
  People who live in silicon valley can probably do it easily. I was there for an interview a few years ago and met 2 CEOs just at the local bar.
csalvato 8y ago
What are some of the bullet points you've learned here? I learned a ton from working for other CEOs, which put me in a great position to see what to emulate and what to ignore. I'm having a hard time understanding what can really be teased out of watching someone do a day's CEO work for 4-8 hours, so curious what you have personally taken away. (PS - I am going to give this a try because I do think it can be valuable, but I feel like you'd need to go in with a mindset that you shouldn't just blindly copy others)

brianwawok 8y ago

How many people can find 5 CEOs to shadow 1-2 times a year?

timwiththebo 8y ago
To be clear, my recommendation is to shadow 1-2 CEOs a year.
sombremesa 8y ago
People who live in silicon valley can probably do it easily. I was there for an interview a few years ago and met 2 CEOs just at the local bar.

csalvato 8y ago

What are some of the bullet points you've learned here? I learned a ton from working for other CEOs, which put me in a great position to see what to emulate and what to ignore. I'm having a hard time understanding what can really be teased out of watching someone do a day's CEO work for 4-8 hours, so curious what you have personally taken away. (PS - I am going to give this a try because I do think it can be valuable, but I feel like you'd need to go in with a mindset that you shouldn't just blindly copy others)