| This is a great opportunity, I'm excited for your inevitable professional growth from doing this. To help my own professional growth I have now shadowed 5 CEOs for 1 day each and have found it the highest ROI growth/training exercise I've done. I have a doc that provides lots of advice, templates etc feel free to use and share: https://goo.gl/BJ8GTT My general pieces of advice - every CEO is different, so do this 1-2 times a year to gain a breadth of insights - take advantage of lunch time and the few mins between meetings so that you can ask follow up questions from your observations - to add value back to the CEO you're shadowing, summarise your observations of them and their business - talk to 3-5 employees (all levels) to understand from them what makes their CEO great and what they could improve on - you'll gain lots of insights into how to run a startup, culture learnings etc so don't limit your learning to just CEO insights Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Timbo |
I learned a ton from working for other CEOs, which put me in a great position to see what to emulate and what to ignore.
I'm having a hard time understanding what can really be teased out of watching someone do a day's CEO work for 4-8 hours, so curious what you have personally taken away.
(PS - I am going to give this a try because I do think it can be valuable, but I feel like you'd need to go in with a mindset that you shouldn't just blindly copy others)