Thinking Like a CEO
Like Duolingo, but for Thinking Like a CEO. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Executive Shift and Leading the Machine. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Thinking Like a CEO
- A CEO's output is measured by the long-term impact of their choices, not the volume of tasks completed
- Spending time on a strategic hire or market pivot is more valuable than personally fixing a minor operational bug
- The CEO defines the destination and the reason for the journey
- Micromanaging the specific steps (the 'How') demotivates experts and creates a bottleneck
- Distinguishing between strategic direction and tactical execution
- Delegation is a tool to protect the CEO's limited time for high-stakes work
- The shift from valuing personal output to valuing decision quality
- If a task can be done 80% as well by someone else, the CEO must hand it off
- The necessity of delegation for CEO survival
- Teams make better independent decisions when they understand the company's goals and constraints
- Control-based leadership fails when the CEO isn't there to give the next order
- The effectiveness of providing context versus giving orders
- A CEO's ultimate job is to build a 'system' (people and processes) that functions without their constant intervention
- Being 'indispensable' to daily operations is actually a failure of leadership
- Measuring CEO success by system autonomy
- A vision statement provides the criteria to reject profitable but distracting 'side quests'
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Thinking Like a CEO the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
You have two hours left in your day. Which activity offers the highest leverage for your company's future?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Thinking Like a CEO takes you
Move from doing the work to designing the system. Learn the high-level habits and decision-making frameworks used by top executives to lead organizations.
- 1
The Executive Shift
- From Doer to Director
- Setting the North Star
- 2
Leading the Machine
- Building the Human Engine
- Navigating High Stakes
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Thinking Like a CEO is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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