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AI Prompts forCEOs

Make space for the decisions only you can lead.

By Russell Cummings

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Task-focused prompts Adapt to your business No coding needed to start

BUILT AROUND YOUR WORK

Make space for the decisions only you can lead.

Leading a privately owned company involves more than setting direction. This guide supports the work of building an executive team, shaping culture, planning growth and maintaining accountability. It includes board relationships, financial oversight, succession, customer experience and personal resilience. The prompts help you prepare for important conversations and examine assumptions across the business, with a 90-day action plan to connect useful thinking with execution.

WHAT YOU CAN PUT TO WORK

More than a list of things to ask AI.

01

Prepare executive-team and strategy discussions

02

Explore financial assumptions and growth scenarios

03

Clarify accountability, leadership expectations and performance reviews

04

Structure board, succession and long-term legacy conversations

The book supplies starting points. Your business context, follow-up questions and review make the answers useful. It does not run an AI tool or perform the work automatically.

EXPLORE THE BOOK

A chapter for the
challenge in front of you.

Browse the chapter-level table of contents from the supplied April 2025 first edition. The book also contains introductions, supporting material and individual prompt sections.

Chapter sequence follows the supplied book. Punctuation is normalised for this website. Page numbers are omitted because formats and editions may differ.

Table of contents

  1. 01How to Write a Powerful Prompt
  2. 02Building a High-Performance Executive Team
  3. 03Leadership, Culture & Change
  4. 04Strategy and Business Planning
  5. 05Financial Oversight and Growth Planning

MAKE YOUR FIRST SESSION USEFUL

Three places to start.

Choose a real task, open the relevant chapter and work with a prompt that fits. These are suggested uses of the book, not promises of a particular result.

CHAPTER 2

Prepare a review of executive-team effectiveness

Building a High-Performance Executive Team

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CHAPTER 7

Structure the discussion for an upcoming board meeting

Working with the Board and Chair

Try this starting point
CHAPTER 16

Translate an agreed strategic priority into 90-day action

90-Day AI Action Plan: Using Prompts to Drive Momentum

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TRY THE APPROACH BEFORE YOU BUY

Give the AI a clearer brief.

An illustrative prompt written for this page, based on the book’s themes. It is not a verbatim extract. Replace the bracketed text before using it in your approved AI tool.

Help me prepare a review of executive-team effectiveness. Context: [describe your business, the situation and the people involved]. Constraints: [add the time, resources and requirements we must work within]. Ask me three questions to clarify missing information. Then provide a practical first draft with clear headings, recommended next steps and the assumptions I should check. Use a professional, plain-English tone. Do not invent facts or treat unverified information as certain.

You can also select and copy the text above.

FROM THE PAGE TO YOUR PRACTICE

Use one prompt.
Then build a habit.

  1. Choose the chapter that matches your current task.
  2. Add your situation, constraints and desired output.
  3. Use your approved AI tool and ask follow-up questions.
  4. Verify the answer and decide what to use.
  5. Save useful prompts and repeat the process.
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THE AUTHOR BEHIND THE LIBRARY

Business experience.
Practical questions.

Russell Cummings brings more than 40 years of work with business owners and leaders to the Focused Execution resources. These books apply that practical approach to asking better questions and turning useful answers into action.

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BEFORE YOU CHOOSE

A few useful answers.

YOUR NEXT USEFUL STEP

Put better questions
to work.

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