Jason M. Lemkin explains how CEOs can use board meetings as pressure to keep teams focused. If your management team dreads the meeting, that dread does the hard work for you instead of you being the sole bad guy pushing them.
I didn't necessarily have to do that again for the board. I hear you. And we can move up. I think it's. If they dread the Monday morning meeting, then I think you have the CO's helper. Right. Is dreading the Monday morning. If the team doesn't dread the Monday morning, sometimes I find the board meeting is the helper. If they dread the board, if they're sweating. If your manager team is like getting hives for a week before the board meeting, I actually think that's great because then the CEO doesn't have to. Doesn't have to do it. I have an external force where they're gonna. Yeah, you don't want them work. You want them working on their slides for 20 minutes. Not a week. But if they're sweating it. I don't know. I just don't. I think I'm a good guy, but I don't mind being the bad guy. The bad guy if it helps the CO to not have to be the bad guy. Right. Sometimes you need. You need someone else to be the tough. The tough one. It can't always be you. Right. I think it's a good point. I think it's a good point. Okay, let's. Should we dive into some of these meta learnings? I'll tailor them to our convo. Couldn't be a bigger fan of St. Louis. I'm here for you. I love it. Okay, let's do two things. And you were kind enough to pre answer them, but I just like to do a vibe check these days because it. I think the vibe has been so volatile the last 24 months since ass. Right. A negative from folks thinking we're in the greatest downturn since the Tulip Crash to exuberance and AI like this just. It's a whiplash time. So you've seen it all. You're chairman of HubSpot, you're at Sequoia. You're seeing an entirely different category. Right. In clean tech. So were we in a downturn? Are we in a downturn? What's the vibe check? As we talk today, I think.
