Elaborate plans just evaporate under pressure. You need to build plans that aren’t too complex and aren’t too simple. Just like Goldilocks said!
Many CEOs overreact to conflicting demands on their time and develop debilitating Schedule Constipation.
Here’s the cure.
Does your company suffer from Meeting Disease? Too many meetings? Too many people, and way too long? You can cure it!
To make real progress you need to change people’s way of thinking. Trying harder to do the same old things rarely yields big results.
Many CEOs permit sales misfits to hang on too long. Their lingering demise is painful to observe, hurts the company and everyone else.
You’re not going to interfere with your managers or do their jobs for them. But you do need to build a real collaboration with them.