It’s never been easy to be the boss, but Mark Thompson and Byron Loflin, the coauthors of CEO Ready: What You Need to Know to Earn the Job—and Keep the Job, believe the pressure cooker has never been as intense as it is now.
Thompson, chairman of the Chief Executive Alliance and previously ranked as the world’s top CEO coach, and Loflin, Nasdaq’s global head of board advisory, joined forces to provide a 360-view of this loaded moment for leadership, from the C-suite and board perspectives, respectively. In a wide-ranging conversation with Fortune, they talked about the Shakespearean themes of leadership and turmoil and the feeling that “heavy is the head that wears the crown.”
