CEO’s Job

Andrew says the job of the CEO is to create the “Conditions for Success” for her staff.I was with an organization once during what Andrew calls my “professional obligation”. I told the CEO that her HR person needed to learn how to recruit in the digital age. Explosion. Face red. Outside voice in a small conference room. The thing is everyone else in the organization already knew this. The CEO tolerated, no perpetuated, a system that was ALWAYS significantly undestaffed, always underpaid market wages and always took months to go from staffing need to position filled. People told me later I “shouldn’t have gone there”. That’s kind of my job.