Building Tomorrow's Executives

The Executive Layer as an Operating DisciplineBy Aiman JoeHanz
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Length4h 19m

About this audiobook

The executive layer is the most expensive leadership in the organization and the least taught: the roles between the chief executive and the work, mostly filled by promotion for excellence at the previous role, and left to learn the actual profession by folklore. This guide treats the executive as a discipline rather than a status: the functional domain run as a system - strategy, resources, bench, operations, culture - rather than a workload; the chief executive relationship run on a stated operating agreement and candor at its hardest setting; the peer layer run as the organization's integration instrument, with the cross-functional trades, honest alliances, and conflicts framed as the tradeoffs they are; the bench led through the one-owner rule, developed deliberately, and held to early honest exits; the information environment defended against the funnel with probes, bypasses, and a deliberate instrument panel; the judgment run as a craft - prepared, optioned, committed, sized, and reviewed; the presence built from substance - the known, the truth, the room, the voice - rather than charisma; the transitions run as arcs - listening before deciding, and the first hard call taken in the momentum; and the whole career managed deliberately - the renewal problem, the CEO question, the portfolio of service, and the operating discipline that holds the practice together. A structural blueprint for the layer the machine era is rebuilding.

Audiobook details

Length4 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Executive Layer
4Chapter 2: The Functional Domain
5Chapter 3: Managing Up
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6Chapter 4: The Peer Layer
7Chapter 5: Leading Leaders
8Chapter 6: The Information Environment
9Chapter 7: Executive Judgment
10Chapter 8: Presence and Authority
11Chapter 9: The Path In
12Chapter 10: The Arc Out
13Connect
14About the Author
15Series Info

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