The Exponential CEO
How to Become a Great CEO and Build a Business That ScalesBy Bradley J SugarsRecorded TrackLength6h 53m
About this audiobook
Is your business ready for its next zero—and are you ready to lead it? In The Exponential CEO, Brad Sugars, Founder and CEO of ActionCOACH, challenges CEOs, executives and ambitious future leaders to build the capability behind extraordinary growth. From $1 million to $10 million, $10 million to $100 million, and $100 million to $1 billion, discover how your role must evolve as the business scales. Learn to focus on the 20 percent worth multiplying, eliminate chaos and complexity, build managers who take ownership, and develop leaders who can make decisions without you. Through the Five Disciplines and the Five Days of a CEO, bring structure to strategy, people, customers, execution, numbers and the future. With practical lessons on predictable growth, cash, expansion and succession, this book helps you turn a bigger ambition into a stronger company. Build your people. Multiply your model. Create value that outlasts your tenure. Become the CEO your next level demands.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Self-Help
Length6 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction. The Business You Are Becoming Ready to Lead
3Part One. Become the Exponential CEO
4Chapter One. Mount Everests and Personal Bests
5Chapter Two. Choose the twenty Percent You Will Scale
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6Chapter Three. You Cannot Scale Chaos or Complexity
7Chapter Four. Build the Five Disciplines Together
8Chapter Five. When Is Your Next Super Bowl
9Chapter Six. The Five Days of a CEO
10Part Two. Build the Management Team. One Million to Ten Million Dollars
11Chapter Seven. You Cannot Scale Genius
12Chapter Eight. Build Your Management Team
13Chapter Nine. Make Customer Growth Predictable
14Chapter Ten. Cut the Distractions
15Chapter Eleven. Fund Growth Before It Arrives
16Part Three. Build the Leadership Team. Ten Million to One Hundred Million Dollars
17Chapter Twelve. Professionalize Management
18Chapter Thirteen. Lead Leaders Who Can Decide
19Chapter Fourteen. Serve the Five Constituents
20Chapter Fifteen. Make the Mission Travel
21Chapter Sixteen. Run the Company Through Numbers
22Part Four. Multiply the Model. One Hundred Million to One Billion Dollars
23Chapter Seventeen. Lead a Model That Can Multiply
24Chapter Eighteen. Lead Geographic and Business Expansion
25Chapter Nineteen. Work With the Board and Build Succession
26Chapter Twenty. Build Value That Outlasts Your Tenure
27Conclusion. Chapter Twenty-one. Prepare for the Next Championship
28Appendix. Put Your Next Zero Plan to Work
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