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You Never Have To Rely on Your

Technical Brilliance

■ Be able to influence people who don’t think like you do.
■ Resolve problems—yours and others.
■ Delegate effectively.

AS A CRAFTSMAN WITH A GOOD TRACK RECORD, you must have great skill
and expertise in an essential mission-critical core competency. But don’t let
your talent in that area become a trap, where you get so good at the special-
ized work competency that you forget to see your business in a holistic way.

Every thing is your thing—yes, you come from a discipline, but you
become a generalist. And being a generalist is interchangeable with
people skills.
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Look for diversity of experiences because to be a CEO, you need to
be able to understand and set strategy for every facet of the business.
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