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Thinking of exiting your business? Explore every option

The Next Web

Empower your management team. Where you can, engage with your management team, empowering and challenging them to step up to running the business while the leadership team focuses on the sale process. During the trade sale process, management should be readily available to respond to queries from potential buyers.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

The first ingredient in being able to do this is leadership as I outlined in a previous post Notes on Leadership. The skills required range from organizational design to performance management. CEOs who excel at board management can “succeed” by setting objectives artificially low.