PS... how did you find it? Keen to learn from my failures...
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I haven't experienced people having a problem with me observing their meetings before, in fact most people are really happy for me to learn from their meeting. I understand some meetings could be difficult though eg. HR related
To help my own professional growth I have now shadowed 5 CEOs for 1 day each and have found it the highest ROI growth/training exercise I've done.
I have a doc that provides lots of advice, templates etc feel free to use and share: https://goo.gl/BJ8GTT
My general pieces of advice
- every CEO is different, so do this 1-2 times a year to gain a breadth of insights
- take advantage of lunch time and the few mins between meetings so that you can ask follow up questions from your observations
- to add value back to the CEO you're shadowing, summarise your observations of them and their business
- talk to 3-5 employees (all levels) to understand from them what makes their CEO great and what they could improve on
- you'll gain lots of insights into how to run a startup, culture learnings etc so don't limit your learning to just CEO insights
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Timbo
Created by OkHi, a tech startup in Kenya that has a mission to give a physical address to the 4B people in the world who don't have one.
Check out their mobile app, it's really nice.
To be honest, we just pulled together the website last week; we weren't quite expecting this attention... but bring on all the early feedback!
To try to help explain in a little more detail what we're up to...
* Problem * The lack of physical address system is a huge problem here in Kenya. Here is the GPS trail of a fast food delivery rider that we tracked recently in Nairobi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIaBTJxdddY
He went 462% further than he needed to because there was no clear destination address. Imagine what that's doing for business efficiencies and customer experience? Imagine that track is not a delivery motorbike but an ambulance.
Last week an ambulance driver told us he was so lost earlier in the week that he spent 20mins in a 500m radius trying to find the house. Unfortunately when he arrived, the casualty was dead.
This is happening 1000s of times a day all over Kenya and other emerging markets around the world.
* Solution *
The short/honest answer is that we don't know yet. The longer answer is our vision.
We believe that at OkHi we can build the next generation of an address system. A system that can truly scale in countries like Kenya and beyond.
Imagine OkHi as a simple address book on your phone that allows you to easily create a digital equivalent of a physical address. You also have access to the addresses of family, friends and useful businesses.
With the OkHi address book, you can now securely share or receive addresses to: - ensure the ambulance trying to find your mum's house doesn't get lost - help the pizza delivery restaurant get food to you still piping hot - be confident that you're not going to be late for your first interview
Exactly what an OkHi address is, we don't know right now. GPS will be part of it but not all of it. Each week we're running lean experiments to try to find out.
We're super keen to get everyone's input and ideas so comment away or ping me directly at timbo@okhi.co.