The CEO Job Description Just Got Rewritten

The CEO job description just got rewritten, and most CEOs missed the memo. Here are the 5 paradoxes separating the CEOs thriving right now from the ones still operating like it's 2016. I pulled this from a roundtable of 15 CEOs I ran last week, ranging from $10 million B2B SaaS founders to one operator north of $100 million. I asked one question: how has your job changed in the last two to three years? The answers kept landing on the same five shifts, from decision maker to systems designer, from hiring hands to hiring orchestrators, from working more to thinking more, from being right to being fast, and from inspiring your team to giving them clarity. I use Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Jensen Huang at Nvidia, Demis Hassabis at Google DeepMind, and Chuck Robbins at Cisco to show what each shift looks like in practice. I built the GTM Operating System after growing Pardot into a $2.7 billion Salesforce acquisition, and this is the exact shift I coach fractional CEOs through today. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) The CEO job description just got rewritten (00:24) Pre-AI CEO vs post-AI CEO, what actually changed (01:29) What 15 CEOs said when I asked how their job changed (03:29) Paradox 1: Decision maker to systems designer (Jack Welch vs. Satya Nadella) (08:25) Paradox 2: Hiring hands to hiring orchestrators (the army model vs. HappyFox) (11:01) Paradox 3: Working more to thinking more (hustle culture vs. Demis Hassabis) (14:36) Paradox 4: Being right to being fast (the perfectionist CEO vs. Jensen Huang) (17:20) Paradox 5: Inspiration to clarity (the visionary CEO vs. Chuck Robbins) (19:54) All 5 paradoxes, summarized (21:35) The questions to ask yourself as a CEO right now (22:46) Take the free GTM assessment 📌 Take the free GTM assessment at runongtmos.com/move to see where you stand on all five. #GTMOS #AICEO #CEOLeadership #GoToMarket