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Before we get into how to build yourself as a CEO, a foundational question you should ask yourself is whether you really want to *be* CEO. Many people think that founders make the best CEOs because they have the vision and the drive necessary to inspire employees and investors and keep them marching in the same direction. But you, you the founder, should reflect on whether you want to keep doing the job of CEO as your company grows. You’ll be required to stretch yourself, to learn rapidly, and to recover from the many mistakes you’ll inevitably make. All the while you’ll be moving further away from your area of expertise (say, product, design, or engineering) and closer to the amorphous, frustrating role of leading people. It’s not for everybody.
From Start-Up to Grown-Up - Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business
Alisa Cohn
We distinguish ourselves, the agents, from the action, and everywhere we make use of this scheme—we try to discover an agent behind every phenomenon.
The Will to Power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It’s just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
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