A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (host David Jenyns with a guest) about how COOs can manage and channel visionary CEOs' frequent ideas. The guest recommends empathic techniques: acknowledge the idea, ask clarifying questions to understand it, and then decide timing/ownership — framing the COO as the 'leash to the entrepreneurial dragon' who helps capture overflowing ideas into actionable work.
How do CEOs get some of this across to their untamed, wild, visionary founders that are off lobbing ideas at them every second?
The COO is often the leash to the entrepreneurial dragon. So you're right. They're all, you know, so there's a, there's an art to saying, hey, I love your idea. Let me ask you some questions so I understand your idea even more. And then once I understand it more, we can decide when we're going to do it. Because for the most part, most entrepreneurs want to take all these crazy ideas of systemizing something or an idea we want to put in place. They don't have any more room in their brain. It's like their hard drive is full. They need to get it out of their brain and into somebody else's. So they kind of delegate it or drop it onto the lap of their bewildered coo. So that's the art to handling the entrepreneurial CEO, is to say, I love your idea. Let me ask you some questions.
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