Office of the CEO Insights
5 steps to building a CEO sales operations function
CEOs and Chiefs of Staff, if you build a repeatable system to drive CEO sales, you will massively derisk your company’s revenue plan. If you’re not making time to do more CEO sales, you’re slacking on your main goal in the Office of the CEO - to grow your company.
7 steps to speed up Office of the CEO decision making
Death by decision: your Office of the CEO makes 297,000 judgment calls every day.
2 reporting structures to build your Office of the CEO org chart
Based on Cedar research, we have found 2 standard organizational structures for the CEO Office.
3 sets of internal Office of the CEO stakeholders
There are 3 sets of internal stakeholders that the Office of the CEO typically serves: the CEO, the C-suite team and the board and investors.
6 steps to revamping your Office of the CEO ROI model
CEOs, Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants: your Office of the CEO ROI should be higher than 10x, otherwise you're doing something wrong. If you calculate an anemic ROI, I'm guessing:
Leave your legacy with the Office of the CEO
Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants, building an Office of the CEO is the 99% guaranteed way to leave your legacy for years after you’re gone.
6 CEO objections to building the Office of the CEO (and how to handle them)
If you want your CEO to invest in building their Office of the CEO, you'll need to get buy-in from your CEO themself. But it's not easy convincing a CEO with limited time, attention and budget to embark on this project.
6 surprising benefits of the Office of the CEO
CEOs: you may know about the standard benefits for the Office of the CEO (save time, work smarter and grow faster), but do you know about its hidden benefits?
6 tips to coach your CEO on better delegation
Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants, if you have a CEO that can’t delegate, say hello to 12+ hour days while you deal with a new crisis every week.
8 steps to better CEO time management
Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants, here are 8 steps to help your CEO rebalance their time towards high priority activities that they actually enjoy doing.
7 steps to plan highly engaging leadership retreats
Dear Office of the CEO: a bad C-suite retreat can cost you upwards of $100,000 in wasted time, poor decisions and leadership distrust. Here are 7 steps to plan, design and execute highly engaging leadership retreats for your C-suite:
8 reasons why you should build protocol into your CEO Office
Clear protocol is everything in the Office of the CEO. Here are 8 reasons why you should build protocol into your CEO Office:
Achieve better board management with a world-class Office of the CEO
Dear Office of the CEO: avoid a Sam Altman-OpenAI board fiasco by deepening your CEO-board relationship.
5 steps to nailing special projects in the Office of the CEO
Dear Chiefs of Staff: your CEO has a million demands on their time. They don’t have the capacity to execute special projects to explore a new market, revitalize the company brand or execute AI transformation.
10 steps to safely add AI to your Office of the CEO
AI has immense power to either destroy your company or to dramatically accelerate your growth. How do you harness its potential without going off the rails? Here’s a how-to guide to confidently and securely add AI to your CEO Office:
5 ingredients for successful business reviews
Avoid wasting millions of dollars of executive time by running effective C-suite business reviews in the Office of the CEO.
7 steps to implement a strong Office of the CEO investment protocol
CEOs, Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants: the price of a bad investment decision can cost you your job-
6 steps to create trust with your CEO in a remote setting
As an Office of the CEO team that works remotely, the main way you can create connection with your boss is through your phone and laptop. How do you do this effectively? Follow the 6 steps below to create trust with your principal in a virtual setting.
Mastering the art of building company KPI dashboards
Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants, we have two questions for you: how accurate and how actionable is your company KPI dashboard?
3 steps to building amazing Office of the CEO playbooks
Playbooks are your secret weapon to move your Office of the CEO at 10x speed. They’ll save you time, reduce mistakes and help you onboard new team members faster.