Everything tagged Strategy.
The org chart was never the problem. The problem was that I kept promoting people into jobs that had stopped existing six months earlier.
If the board meeting is where your directors learn what is happening, you have already lost the value of having a board at all.
Bringing in someone more experienced than you is the highest-leverage move available to a founder, and the one most likely to be fumbled.
Weekly, monthly, quarterly. Get the rhythm right and strategy executes itself. Get it wrong and no amount of talent compensates.
Every downturn feels structural while you are inside it. Every recovery feels obvious afterwards. Neither feeling is useful.
“Thank you for reading. That tension between naming a problem and fixing it is most of the job, in my experience.”
“Thank you for reading. That tension between naming a problem and fixing it is most of the job, in my experience.”
“Thank you for reading. That tension between naming a problem and fixing it is most of the job, in my experience.”