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How do executives use AI to move faster toward the CEO seat? They use it to multiply output before they hold the title that normally justifies a bigger team. Gregory Shepard, CEO of Startup Science, has watched AI compress a six-person marketing function down to one person and a ten-person engineering team down to the … Read more
Most CEOs plan an exit the way they’d plan a garage sale. They wait until they want out, then scramble to make the business look good for a few months. Brett Sharenow, CEO of Broadscope Consulting, has personally helped companies raise more than $920 million and closed deals worth $6.4 billion. He will tell you … Read more
Executive coaching helps a leader get better inside a role where someone else still holds the final call. CEO coaching helps a leader carry a role where no one is above them. Joshua Gould, CEO of thebigword, runs a company with more than 400 employees and 15,000 contractors, and he still says the jump from … Read more
Gregory Shepard, CEO of Startup Science, has built and sold 12 companies, earning “Deal of the Year” honors for transactions between $250 million and $1 billion. Building a company for an exit means running it every day as if a buyer could walk in tomorrow. You clean up your cap table, cut customer concentration, and … Read more
Executives build CEO-level influence before the title by replacing directives with questions. Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach, sees this pattern across every executive who makes the transition successfully. Theodore Krantz, CEO of interos.ai, spent nearly nine years at Data.ai – moving from president to CEO – before taking the helm at interos. Even that … Read more
Shannon Swift, Founder and CEO of Swift Solutions, built her firm over 21 years. She knows when a CEO needs a coach: when they can no longer get the truth from the people closest to them. “We don’t always feel safe talking to our teams, talking to our boards,” she told me on The Scaling … Read more
AI adoption for executives is a structural problem. I see it in every company that treats AI like a training event. Gregory Shepard, CEO of Startup Science, required every team member to spend three weeks researching how AI could improve their specific role. What he found: a job previously done by six people in marketing … Read more
Getting onto the CEO succession list is one challenge. Staying on it requires a discipline most executives never develop. Sam Hodges, co-founder and CEO of Vouch, scaled Funding Circle US to $1.5 billion in originations before guiding it through a successful IPO. Glenn Gow, The Scaling Executive Coach, has guided executives through exactly this gap … Read more
The career path to CEO exposes every gap you have been hiding. Levi King, CEO and Chairman of Nav, found this out when he ran an anonymous 360-degree feedback survey across all 100 of his employees and discovered the distance between his own self-image and how his team actually perceived his executive leadership. Glenn Gow, … Read more
Executives get promoted to CEO by changing what they measure. When Joshua Gould, Group CEO of thebigword became Group CEO, he went from C-suite executive to sole decision-maker for a workforce of 15,000 people overnight. Premal Shah, CEO of MyOme, describes what that transition demands: “Leadership at scale is really about people and incentives and … Read more
