COO Archives

When Is the Right Time to Hire a COO?

If you ask 10 CEOs when they hired their first COO, you’ll hear 10 very different timelines.Some bring in a second-in-command too early, creating layers before there’s real complexity. Others wait too long — drowning in execution while their company stalls. So when is...

Do My Customers and Employees Love Me?

When it comes to really understanding customers and employees, and understanding how much they like a company, most people are just guessing. They don’t have any real data and if they do, it’s often misleading. That’s why there is only one surefire...

Tips for COOs – Tip #5: Hiring

Hiring the right people is a vital part of ensuring the success of your company. Knowing how to do so is one of the most important things you can do as a leader and COO for you and your company. In order to ensure that you are hiring the right executive team, the team...

Tips for COOs – #4: The Vivid Vision®

As a COO, it is crucial that you know how your CEO sees the future of the company so that you can map out how to get your company to grow. You need to be clear about your CEO’s vision for the company in order to do your job. The solution to that is a thing...

Tips for COOs – #3: Payment Structure

What should you pay your employees? Payment structures can be a hard task to figure out. It can be difficult to decide what to pay your employees. Often, your employees expect a certain kind of pay based on their titles, but sometimes employees are given titles that...