As CEO, you set the tone for your organisation. You establish priorities, anticipate andaddress challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, andmanage risk. You look at issues and trends to see how they'll affect your companyinternally, but also externally - in the larger context of your industry, your country,and your company's place in the global marketplace. You maintain a long-term viewwhile simultaneously paying attention to short-term concerns. And though you mayhave a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, ultimately theresponsibility rests on your shoulders.
If you read nothing else for CEOs, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We'vecombed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive andselected the most important ones to help you balance stability with growth, take theshort-term view while keeping an eye on long-term issues, and think about talentdevelopment, retention, and recruitment.
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