Almost every company I see where the CEO is too busy suffers from at least one of 3 key criteria not being in place. Missing any of them means that the CEO gets involved in too many decisions, often at FAR too micro a level. (For involved, read “making the decision” or, more commonly, “overturning […]
Management
Each policy you add is a small nail in the trust coffin
Are you loading up your company with policies? So often I see SMEs feeling like they need to add a detailed policy for expenses, another for travel, for mobile phones, for toilet paper folding, male sandal-wearing and on and on and on. Sometimes, a policy makes sense. But often, sense makes more sense. This welcome […]
Would you sack your biggest client to keep your team happy? – Richard Clarke of Secret Source
Would you sack your biggest client if they were making your team unhappy? Create a BIG hole in your revenue and profit? Actually put some of your team at risk due to the financial hit? “We want our team to be happy”. Pretty much every company says this at some level. And in the inimitable […]
Debates aren’t to win – they’re to learn
One of the most unspoken pressures I see in CEOs comes from the feeling that you need to have the answers. You’re the boss. People turn to you for an answer. You give it. The challenge is that if it’s as linear as that – if people look to you for an answer, and every […]
Where’s “happy” in your strategy?
If you’re running a company, and especially if you’re running a company you founded, I have one question for you. Why are you doing it? Seriously. Why do you do what you do? What are your top 1,2 or 3 reasons? If high up in your reasons you don’t have some variation of “to create […]