Random Thoughts on Leadership & Technology · 1mo · discuss
Escapement, Yeast, and Trim or Three Ways to Stop SteeringThere is a particular kind of executive who is never not needed. Ask them how the quarter is going and they will tell you, with the weary pride of a field surgeon, that they are "in the weeds right now" - as though the weeds were weather rather than landscaping. They arbitrate every trade-off. They are copied on everything. Their calendar looks like a ransom note. And their organization, which cannot go four days without them, is offered as proof of how essential they are. It is proof of something. Just...