5 Reasons Why I'm Publishing The Chief of Staff Playbook, 2nd Edition

Let’s get into it:

✅ My personal motivation

✅ 1st Edition playbook success

As of today, The Chief of Staff Playbook, 1st Edition has been downloaded 3,388 times by readers from 80 countries at top companies and organizations. 89.3% of them hail from the Top 10 Most Represented Countries - the US, India, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Singapore, Netherlands and Spain. Playbook readers come from top companies and organizations, including McKinsey, US Navy, Citi, Teach For America, Google and OpenAI, among others. Many have encouraged me to continue writing on this rapidly growing role in the nascent field of Executive Operations.

✅ Immature industry standards

At Cedar, we’ve identified many paid Chief of Staff communities but few open source resources that cover the industry’s developing (but immature) standards on Chief of Staff. Paid communities include The Chief of Staff Association, Ask a Chief of Staff, and Chief of Staff Roundtable… but the only robust open source resources we’ve found are Ask a Chief of Staff's newsletter, Right Hand's newsletter, and of course our Cedar newsletter and playbook.

Only Chief of Staff Hiring, Recruiting, Roles & Responsibilities are close to reaching full maturity. Standards on Chief of Staff Onboarding, Career Pathing, Learning & Development, Performance Management, Compensation & Benefits, Succession Planning, and ROI / Business Case have a long way to go. Hence the need to publish much more.

✅ New clients, research and insights

To address this need, over the past year we held 250+ research conversations with our clients and other industry professionals. Organizations and companies included Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Salesforce, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Tripadvisor, Berkshire Partners and many more. We spoke mainly with CEOs, Founders, Chiefs of Staff, EAs, TA Directors and job seekers, but also CXOs, Board Members, Investors, Executive Coaches, and People & Culture Strategists. Our consulting work and deep research have yielded never-before published insights until now.

✅ New LinkedIn and Beehiiv content

Finally, over the past year I've written 200+ new LinkedIn posts and dozens of beehiiv newsletter articles, boosting impressions, followers, subscribers and engagement. I am happy to report that our content is striking a chord, resulting in 1M+ impressions, 8,000+ followers and 9,000+ engagements on LinkedIn as well as 1,000+ subscribers with a 60.7% open rate and 5.8% click rate on Beehiiv. Select content will be added to the 2nd Edition.

Join my launch party tomorrow, Wednesday March 13 at 8am / 11a ET / 3p GMT to get early access. I’ll be presenting a bunch of new Playbook-related content, and you’ve just gotten a sneak peak with the slides above. Full agenda below.

» RSVP here, bring a friend and join 180+ other professionals and my team who are celebrating the launch of The Chief of Staff Playbook, 2nd Edition.

Upcoming Events

Webinar: Chapter 1: Chief of Staff 101 from The Chief of Staff Playbook, 2nd Edition, Cedar, LinkedIn Live/Zoom, March 27, 2024, 8am / 11am PT / 3p GMT. Details below, RSVP here.

Workshop: Turn Your Executive Team into Fast and Fearless Leaders: How to Build an Executive Operations Function Engineered for Speed, EA Ignite, American Society for Administrative Professionals, Nashville, TN, April 23, 2024 (Sold Out)

Roundtable: Become a Fast and Fearless Leader in the Office of the CEO (or Any Executive Office), EA Ignite, American Society for Administrative Professionals, Nashville, TN, April 23, 2024 (Sold Out)

Panel: Mastering Stakeholder Management and Making a Lasting Impact, Women in the COO Community, Armstrong Wolfe, New York City, NY, April 24, 2024 (Private Event)

Send me a note if you’re interested in booking me as a niche, unique speaker at your next event to speak about anything related to Chief of Staff, Executive Operations and/or the Office of the CEO.

Upcoming Webinar

Can’t make my launch party? Join my upcoming webinar.

𝗪𝗵𝗼'𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱?

-Founders & CEOs who want to explore the exact benefits of a Chief of Staff
-Recruiters/People leaders identifying the CEO triggers to hire their right hand
-Chief of Staff Job seekers looking to better understand the role in more detail
-Executive Assistants exploring the next step in their ExecOps career
-New Chiefs of Staff learning the fundamentals of role itself

𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀

Welcome to a series of webinars dedicated to the newly published The Chief of Staff Playbook, 2nd Edition. We will cover 9 chapters of content in greater detail, while engaging in more intimate conversations with our audience.

Join me and the Cedar team on Wednesday March 27, 2024 at 11am ET / 8am PT / 3p GMT for our very first 2nd Edition Playbook webinar, dedicated to Chapter 1: Chief of Staff 101: What’s a Chief of Staff and why should you hire one?

We’ll start the webinar by exploring the exact 9 roles & responsibilities of the modern Chief of Staff. Next, we’ll cover the top 7 benefits for hiring a Chief of Staff, along with some surprising ones as well. Hint - the most impactful CEO benefits are emotional, mental and spiritual.

Next, we’ll cover the 8 triggers that lead a CEO to hire a Chief of Staff, CEO warning signs that they need to hire NOW and then conclude with how to overcome CEO objections to making this important hire. Questions from the audience to follow.

>> RSVP here and share with your network. This event will be recorded if you can’t make it.

Chief of Staff Jobs

Welcome to our Chief of Staff job board. If you have a Chief of Staff job you’d like shared to 1,000+ readers of this newsletter or need hands-on recruiting help to hire your Chief of Staff, reply to this email.

Chief of Staff, Ohmium, Fremont, CA, Startup

Regional Chief of Staff - Financial Institutions, BCG, Chicago, IL, Consulting, Corporate

Chief of Staff, Intel, Santa Clara, CA, Tech, Corporate

Chief of Staff, TEK Systems, Los Angeles, CA, Tech, Corporate

Chief of Staff, Room to Grow, Bronx, NY, Education, Non-profit

Chief of Staff, City of Seattle, Seattle, WA, Government

Chief of Staff, Rex, Austin, TX, Tech, Startup

Chief of Staff, Glocap, New York, NY, Finance, Corporate

VP, Chief of Staff, Moody’s, New York NY, Finance, Corporate

Junior Chief of Staff, Genioo, New York, NY, Consulting, Corporate

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Until next week,

Mackenzie

Mackenzie Lee | Founder & CEO
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New York City, NY
www.CedarChief.com

At Cedar, we turn executives into fast and fearless leaders.

Thanks to technology, changing markets, and demanding investors, the C-suite job is tougher than ever. We help executives find freedom from blockers and busywork.

Our mission is to help 1 million CEOs and their C-suite teams let go and do more of the things that matter. We help you hire a Chief of Staff, build an Office of the CEO, and implement C-suite operating systems.

On average our clients see a 25% meeting reduction, 20% strategic sales increase, and 2x speed-to-execution in their first 90 days with us. Data is continuously analyzed to improve performance and accelerate growth.