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

When To Say Yes Or No To Your Employee's Ideas | Tony Skowron (Podcast 468)

26 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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This podcast episode (Cameron Herold hosting Tony Skowron) discusses how a CEO should evaluate employee ideas by debating to uncover the truth, checking strategic alignment, timing, and resource readiness, and ensuring the organization can execute. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of being highly observant—spotting micro-details that affect successful execution.

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The one thing a CEO does, good one, is you're always passionately debating to get to truth. You're trying to get to actually what really matters. Because in the, in the swirl of vision and ideas and creativity and this, you have to distill that down to does this align? And even if it does align, is it the right time? And even if it's the right time and it does align, but do we have the resources and the right things to actually ensure that a successful execution? And during those, I learned a lot of doing it the wrong way in two ways. One, I observed, you know, working with the companies, I became very, very observant. That was another probably skill set or attribute from how I was raised that translated. Well, today is being incredibly observant in picking up little micro details.