WHEN CEOs DELEGATE THE WRONG TASKS
As a first-time CEO, as your company grows and the work becomes more complex, and while you have a team to help you with this goal, you’ll notice that fundamentally there becomes two different kinds of jobs to do. The first job is to imagine new ways of growing the company, to forge new strategies,…
YOUR TEAM IS LESS ALIGNED THAN YOU THINK
What most leaders assume about their organization or about any other person is that they have a much, much greater shared reality and perspective than really exists. If the person you’re speaking to agrees with your point of view, the natural human reaction is to assume that this agreement extends to alignment on every aspect of the topic.
Let me give you an example. Say a CEO tells his team, we’re going to focus on channel sales because channel is a much higher leverage approach for us….
KNOW WHEN TO SAY F-IT
I think you need to take more risks.
A client of mine (first-time CEO) was asking me what she should do. Raising her “B round” of funding was harder than she expected, and she was getting tons of feedback from potential investors that a strategic pivot to a more familiar business model might make it easier for them to write the big check.
“I know I could make it work, sell the company in a few years for a decent valuation, and…
