Lots of interesting pearls of wisdom. I really enjoyed reading this and found it useful.
Perhaps it’s me, but it almost feels like the author perceives that managing a company is the same as making a stack of decisions, and the piece covers well how the CEO relates to other employees in the decision-making process.
While making decisions is certainly an important part of what a CEO does, managing a company also involves managing how decision making happens within the organization: that often means helping decision making happen with less and less direct involvement of the CEO.
Indeed, as an organization grows, the number of decisions to be taken grows too, and so an important aspect of any framework for effective decision making involves managing people, and designing the organization, in such a way that decisions are moved away from the CEO.
In this sense, it would have been interesting to read more about when and how a CEO should let others take over the process for certain decisions, how a CEO should pick which decisions to be involved in and which should be delegated, or how a CEO should evaluate the performance of the organization’s decision making capabilities.
Perhaps it’s me, but it almost feels like the author perceives that managing a company is the same as making a stack of decisions, and the piece covers well how the CEO relates to other employees in the decision-making process.
While making decisions is certainly an important part of what a CEO does, managing a company also involves managing how decision making happens within the organization: that often means helping decision making happen with less and less direct involvement of the CEO.
Indeed, as an organization grows, the number of decisions to be taken grows too, and so an important aspect of any framework for effective decision making involves managing people, and designing the organization, in such a way that decisions are moved away from the CEO.
In this sense, it would have been interesting to read more about when and how a CEO should let others take over the process for certain decisions, how a CEO should pick which decisions to be involved in and which should be delegated, or how a CEO should evaluate the performance of the organization’s decision making capabilities.