Libro: Chief Accountability Officer: The Operating System Every CEO Needs to Build, Manage, and Grow a High-Performing Executive Team

“Emeric doesn’t teach leadership from theory. He teaches it from the scars. This book is what happens when a CEO builds the system he wishes he’d had.”
— Dan Martell, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Buy Back Your Time
“Concrete, practical, and built from real operating experience. This is the book I wish had existed when I was scaling my first company.”
— Matthieu Vaxelaire, Partner, Hexa

Every business book tells you to hire a great operator.
This one shows you how to become one.
I’m Emeric Ernoult, CEO of Agorapulse. I bootstrapped the company to $25M in ARR and 200 people across three continents.
For years, I thought I needed an operator (or Integrator for those running EOS). Someone to run the day-to-day execution of the business: setting priorities, running executive meetings, driving planning, and holding the team accountable to results, while I focused on vision.
I waited. I delegated. I hesitated.
I knew it wasn’t working. I just kept telling myself it would. One executive in the wrong seat for too long cost us roughly $10M in enterprise value and two years of growth.
That’s when I stopped pretending someone else should own the day-to-day.
The real job of a CEO isn’t solving every problem. It’s about building a leadership team that executes against a standard without you having to chase them.
So I stopped waiting and built the system instead.
It’s the weekly operating rhythm I use to run my executive team, so everyone knows what’s expected and actually delivers.
And I documented it all in Chief Accountability Officer.
Inside, you’ll learn how to: Identify who truly belongs on your team using the Keeper Test Define what “great” looks like for every role with the WSLL framework (What Success Looks Like) Measure real performance with simple scorecards that drive behavior Run weekly one-on-ones and executive meetings that actually keep the company alive Hire and onboard executives with a system that reveals who will perform and who won’t
This book is for you if: You lead a company with an executive team. You know at least one person is in the wrong seat, and you haven’t acted on it. Performance issues linger longer than they should. You feel like the bottleneck, even with “good people” around you. You know at least one person is in the wrong seat and hasn’t acted on it.
Most leadership books give you frameworks built for companies with massive HR teams or advice from people who have never had to make payroll.
This is neither.
This is a practical operating system, built inside a bootstrapped SaaS company, and used every week by the CEO who wrote it.
No one is coming to run your company for you.
If you're ready to build a leadership team that owns outcomes, executes consistently, and frees you to focus on growth, order your copy of Chief Accountability Officer today.