Mark Douglas: CEOs Must Beware Staff Treating Casual Ideas as Directives
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Mark Douglas, CEO of LCP Tracker, discusses the communication challenges executives face as their organizations scale.
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“Anytime I come up with an idea and I talk to people about it, they start to go off and run like they, I want to build it. And I'm like, oh, no, no. I didn't say go build it. So I just say be careful about how you approach your staff, especially as you're getting bigger.”
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