A COO can spend years getting better at the job and still find the same problems one level down. The question is where the gap sits: in the COO’s own growth, or in the managers who report to them? The two answers point to different tools, and COO Alliance and...
Most operational content covers problems someone already solved. This month, COO Alliance members named the operational bottleneck slowing them down right now and what they had already tried without success. Bottlenecks Rarely Look Like Bottlenecks One COO described a...
Next week, a small group of second in command executives will spend two and a half days at MIT’s Endicott House outside Boston. No CEOs in the room. No inbox pulling at their attention. Just the people actually running the operations of their companies, sitting...
The best insight a COO gets this year rarely comes from a course or a book. It comes from a conversation with someone who already solved the exact problem sitting on your desk right now. Why The Room Beats The Slides Cameron Herold has invested more than a million...
This October, COO Connect Barcelona brings the first European COO Alliance Summit to life, capped at just 14 seats, for 3.5 days built around one goal: putting world-class operators in the same room to learn and grow together. This event was never built for passive...
Almost every COO carries a quiet doubt they rarely say out loud. They show up, run the operation, and privately wonder if they actually know what they’re doing. That doubt has a name, and it shows up far more often than most leaders admit. The Lunch...
