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What a CEO Actually Says When You Turn Off the Recorder

I have ghostwritten seven books with founders and CEOs. In every single case, the most useful conversation happened after I turned off the recorder. This is not a trick. It is a fact of the work. It took me four books to understand it.

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Quiet Ember

Excellent.

1 month
Fatima Z.

This is one of the best essays on the craft I have read anywhere. Please write more.

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Omar F.

Turning off the recorder is the whole method. I have been doing this wrong for a decade.

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