If you’re a CEO and you start off with a few direct reports, the relationship is pretty simple. You’re a team lead. Things change once you get to fifty people, and you become a two-tiered organization. At 100 you’ve got managers of managers, and the role of CEO starts to change dramatically. If you’re not careful, people can start griping about siloed organizations, and your structure can collapse in the middle. Well, leadership starts at the top. Tien Tzuo and Tom Mohr will discuss what causes leaders to "top out" as their company grows, how to avoid those traps, and how to continue to evolve and grow as the needs of your organization change. Learn some hard-won truths about scaling effective management.

1. Growth &
Leadership
Academy
Tom Mohr
Founder, CEO and Chief
Accelerator at CEO Quest

2. LEADERSHIP

3. LEADERSHIP
IS ABOUT LEVERAGE

4. BIGGEST LEVER:
CEO effectiveness

5. Company progress
depends on CEO’s
capacity to crack
the right riddles Start
Finish
Not here
END UP HERE

6. RIDDLE CRACKING
is an act of design

7. THERE ARE
FIVE DESIGN DOMAINS

8. BELIEF: what mission,
vision, values, strategy?

9. CUSTOMER DESIGN:
who is your customer?

10. PRODUCT DESIGN:
how do you reward
your customer?

11. WORKFLOW DESIGN:
how to execute your promise
to your customer?

12. PEOPLE DESIGN:
what team connects right product
with right customer?

13. THE RIDDLES TO BE CRACKED
CHANGE AS YOU SCALE

14. THE RIDDLES TO BE CRACKED
CHANGE AS YOU SCALE

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

16. FIRST TRACTION IS FOUND WITH FEW RESOURCES.
WITH TRACTION COMES RESOURCES + COMPLEXITY.
Early Later
Riddles
Resources
Simple Complex
Constrained Ample

17. 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

18. 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

19. Your Board Your Exec Team
Your Employees Your Network
Your Coach Your Peer Group
SELF-AWARENESS
AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
COMES FROM TRANSPARENCY
AND INQUIRY

20. 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

21. THE KEY QUESTION:
HOW FAR CAN YOU
GROW?