A Chief of Staff's core function is finding and preventing executive problems
Kris Cordle · #99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego · Dec 22, 2020 · at 42:11
Former Slack and Twitter Chief of Staff Kris Cordle discusses the core value and mechanics of the Chief of Staff role.
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“The most thinkless decision you can make is the one that prevents something bad from happening. And that kind of epitomizes the chief of staff role, because you're out there not just solving problems, but finding problems. Ideally, you are keeping so much from coming up to, for the leader, you're taking things off of their plate, you know, and there's different types of chief of staffs.”
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