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

Unraveling the Secrets of Effective CEOs

11 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short leadership talk (YouTube video) advising CEOs to stop handling day-to-day operations and instead delegate execution. The speaker emphasizes that effective CEOs must be willing to relinquish control over how tasks are done, state desired outcomes, and trust capable people (e.g., a COO) to execute while the COO learns both long-range and close-in perspectives.

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To be a really good CEO, you have to be good at operations. You have to be good at basic company systems. Right? That's the exact thing you don't want to do as a CEO. What I would suggest for anyone who wants to have the seat is to say, can you give up the control of being the one who decides how things are done and just start saying, here's what I want to happen, and have someone that they trust who they. Who is capable to execute on that. In the most basic form, I would say a COO should learn how to see farther, and a COO should learn how to see a little closer. Estimate.