Prioritize CEO information access even if it burdens team productivity
Jesse Pujji · Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business · Mar 21, 2023 · at 30:03
Jesse Pujji and Alex Lieberman discuss organizational structure and why CEOs should not feel guilty about demanding reports or meetings that optimize executive decision-making.
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“As the leader, sometimes it is important that maybe the team's a little bit less productive for your benefit, because you're ultimately the only person who can see everything that's happening and you're ultimately making most of the decisions. Right. And so it's not a crazy thing for people to have to do things like a lot of CEOs. They don't want to impose. Oh, I don't need you to send me a report. That's going to take you time. Maybe you do. Maybe 10 minutes of you reading something is worth it versus you poking around in Google Analytics, you know, like that might be the right thing for the organization. So I just, I want to call that out because I see a lot of like, I don't want to say falsely modest, but almost like incorrectly modest CEO types or leaders who are like, oh, I don't want to trouble the team with it. No, you know, the best thing for the company is that you get information quickly, fast, and in a way that you can digest it so that you can be a better leader and make better decisions.”
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