The REAL Job of a COO: Drive Results Without Outshining the CEO | Abrams Media (Podcast 514)

I think like when you're in a traditional COO role, you can give your opinion about something, but ultimately the decision, the final decision is going to come from the CEO. And I think there's a certain like comfort and freedom to that because even if you disagree with it, you're like, it's not ultimately my final decision, but I'm going to do my best to execute it as well as I can. When you are the person that needs to make those final decisions, which now I definitely am in more of that a position, there's a higher degree of pressure and there can be like second guessing etc, so it's getting comfortable with that. You're definitely more of like a motivator and like you need, you need to articulate the vision to, to people. I've managed teams before, so that wasn't new to me. But sort of talking more holistically about the business and where this is going and getting people excited about it, you know, that has to be even more of a focus than it was was in the past.