Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

3 Things COOs Wish They Could Tell CEOs

25 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold and a co-speaker share what COOs need from CEOs: breaks from constant contact, a system to capture and prioritize ideas instead of chasing every one, and time upfront to ask clarifying questions before executing delegated work.

CEO's are crazy, and they're supposed to be.
And I think most.
COOs wish they could tell the CEOs a few things.
So one thing we'd like to be.
Able to tell the CEOs is like.
We actually need a break from you. We need a break from you once in a while. The second thing.
Is that we love all your ideas.
But we can't start them all right away. And we want to take all your ideas and put them in a safe place and organize them all. And maybe we vote on those ideas every month or every quarter and we.
Decide which ideas.
To green light, yellow light, or red light? The. The third thing I think we need.
To tell all the CEOs is I.
Need more time from you. And I know you keep saying, like, I don't need to meet with you or I don't need to know that, but I, as your second in command, need that from you. I need to ask you three or four or seven questions to understand the project that you're delegating so that I can make it work and deliver it back to you perfectly.
But you.
Keep getting upset with me, and that's not the point. It's not me debating. I'm just trying to catch up.