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How to be a Good CEO That Succeeds in Business Growth – with Jim Schleckser

Are you a good CEO or just an average CEO? Do you look for the point of constraint in the business or just sit around not understanding what the job is? Great CEOs are effective and don’t work crazy hours to meet their goals; they instead look for constraints and work towards untying them to continue growing the business.

In this episode of the Page One Podcast, we have Jim Schleckser, he helps leaders grow companies. He and his team at the Inc. CEO Project work with over 100 CEOs of high growth companies to identify and obliterate the things that stand between them and continued organizational success. Jim has over 30 years of leadership in business strategy, technology businesses, process improvement, organizational development, mergers and acquisitions, engineering, and sales and marketing.

Listen in to learn how to find ‘kinks’ or constraints in your business as the CEO and work towards untying them together with your team. You will also learn the power of crafting a great customer experience for your business to succeed in the eCommerce space.

Key Takeaways:

• Why you shouldn’t share all your vision points with your team at once.
• How to be a good communicator to your team by meeting them where they are and framing your message how they’ll understand.
• How to be flexible with your planning and not be bound by annual planning.
• How to build a surprising and fun quality to differentiate your business online and offline.

Episode Timeline:

• [1:52] Jim shares his experience climbing Kilimanjaro.
• [5:19] The difference between good CEOs and average CEOs in problem-solving and effectiveness.
• [7:54] A story of a CEO who pivoted and continued to grow the business during the pandemic.
• [11:47] How not to make the mistake of sharing your vision points with the team all at one go.
• [16:20] How to effectively communicate as a leader by meeting your message receiver where they are.
• [21:22] How to approach new ideas with the team by either shifting or adding the talent.
• [26:38] How to craft your customer experience to perform great in eCommerce.
• [37:21] Jim explains why they spend most of their time driving for business growth.
• [38:48] The importance of innovating and improving your business model to continue growing your business.
• [42:17] He talks about his new book Professional Drinking, which is about networking confidently.

Quotes:

“Great leaders are thoughtful about their audience, and they frame and share the message in a way that their audience can receive it.”- Jim [18:43]