> To paraphrase the book, the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions.
For larger orgs, sure. For small and quickly growing orgs, ie the majority audience here, no.
For larger orgs, sure. For small and quickly growing orgs, ie the majority audience here, no.
Almost none of this applies to small companies. They are so small that the founders and the CEO actually do have a chance of fully understanding problems, which means they don't yet need to delegate decisions.
This stuff definitely starts coming into play at around ~100; then as a department head who's been there since the get-go, you might have 30 reports; on some topics you're an expert who should be directly involved, sometimes not...
Is there any data on this?