The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders -- Adam Bryan

<p><b>Named to the shortlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Leadership category</b></p><p><b>Are you ready to lead? Will you pass the test?</b></p><p>Despite all the effort through the years to understand what it takes to be an effective leader, the challenges of leadership remain enormously difficult and elusive; even today, most CEOs don't last five years in the job. The demands to deliver at a consistently high level can be unforgiving.</p><p>The loneliness. The weight of responsibility. The relentless second-guessing and criticism. The pressure to build all-star teams. The 24/7 schedule that requires superhuman stamina. The tough decisions that often leave no one happy. The expectation to always have the right answer when it can be hard just to know the right question.</p><p>These challenges are brought into their highest and sharpest relief in the corner office, but they are hardly unique to chief executives. All leaders face their own version of these tests, and the authors draw on the distilled wisdom, stories, and lessons from hundreds of chief executives to show how every aspiring leader can master these challenges and lead like a CEO. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers.</p><p><i>The CEO Test</i> is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniq