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Being the Boss starts and ends with carrying it out. The role models should be Jack port Welch, ex-CEO of GE; Steve Jobs at Apple; and Jeff Bezos at Amazon. They get out in front of the task and lead the charge. Only then do they evaluate their skill to see who to enlist to help them. This audiobook stresses that, in case you get the employer job because you be friends with people, have command skills, or network well, the key is doing the task - getting the job done. And checking out with your employer to be sure you are doing exactly what he or she wants. Once a day is not too often. "Boss, am I focused on what you want me to be?" Few say it; hard to get very off course if you retain calibrating, says the writer. The author suggests precisely what you must do on daily in week one and in your next week of bossing. Don't sit back and evaluate, he advises, as so many people do. Get after it, get things done, and enlist those you will need to support your efforts, both people confirming to you and those that don't, inside and outside your company. Lou Gerstner, when he became IBM's CEO, famously started by talking to customers: "What would you like? What can we do better?" He scheduled 40% of his time with customers. And lhe eft a can do, get it done, sales VP in charge as CEO when he remaining. The work always starts with the client, the author points out. Start there. And he provides interesting tips about how to cope with the people confirming to you: keep carefully the ones that will help; return the ones that can't to HR, but keep them in your financial budget until HR can place them in other places or eliminate them. Don't harm people; just move them out. And quickly. You should get this done by Friday of your first week when still in your honeymoon period with your employer. The writer says he has never met a powerful CEO or employer who said he or she acted prematurely in getting rid of people. But, which is a big but, don't harm them. Move these to HR; keep them on the budget; support their change; not in your shop. An excellent being attentive experience, and with laughter too - challenging in a talk about bossing.
