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Maybe a good solution for CEOs in that situation is to be pretty clear about that - make the CxO role a purely "public face" role, and leave day to day operatio
by ryanbrunner 4y ago
Maybe a good solution for CEOs in that situation is to be pretty clear about that - make the CxO role a purely "public face" role, and leave day to day operations to VP / SVPs.
In my experience that rarely happens, the "golfing buddy" types may be good at the golfing buddy stuff but also exert a lot of influence (often quite forcefully) on the overall org where their actions tend to be mostly negative.
- etempleton 4y agoIn theory a good leader does exactly this. I once heard leadership defined as creating consensus. It is only when two VPs can’t make a decision does the good CxO step in to make a judgement call based on the arguments of all sides. Even Steve Jobs talked about losing arguments at Apple and not getting his way. He hated it, but he recognized he maybe didn’t always know best and trusted people to make the right call if they could defend their rationale. Too many leaders think their job is to be a decider, when it is really their job is to hire people they trust to make most decisions and then they make a few critical ones.