Tag: Management team

What is your super power?

What are you best at? What do you love to do more than anything else? What work, when you get to do it, doesn’t feel like work? I find myself asking CEOs questions like this a lot. CEOs come in […]

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Are you living your values?

Values show up again and again in my conversations with CEOs. It is my belief that misaligned or simply unarticulated values are the root cause of all disagreements, mismatches in expectations, etc. This is as true in life as it […]

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Are you the smartest person in the room?

One of the most important roles of a CEO is the building of a strong leadership team. This is actually the single most scalable thing you can do as a CEO. Over time, you go from succeeding through your own […]

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Do your leaders know how to work with you?

As I have written about before, building the best possible senior team is the single most scalable thing a CEO can do to grow the business. The right leaders will give you leverage. The wrong leaders will slow you down. […]

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Hiring the best vs. hiring the familiar

It is usually a good sign when people that have worked with a CEO in a past company follow that person to the next company. You only become a leader when people choose to follow you. So if they are […]

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How to scale decision-making

Many CEOs find themselves going from meeting to meeting to meeting. When we look into why this is so, one of the main reasons is that they are called upon to make decisions in each meeting. These could range from […]

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