A growing company eventually hits a leadership gap. Choosing between a fractional vs full-time executive is an important decision. For some gaps, a full-time hire is the right call. For others, a fractional executive brings senior experience when the company needs it....
Cameron Herold, our founder, has a saying: if you don’t have an executive assistant, you are the executive assistant. Calendar management and routine emails belong to someone, and when nobody else owns them, they belong to the leader. Offshore hiring is one way...
At a certain stage, many growing companies find that a bookkeeper is no longer enough, and a full-time CFO feels like too much. COOs see that gap in every operating decision because the numbers stop keeping up. Here is how to tell when a company has reached that...
This week, COO Alliance members walk into MIT Endicott House for 2.5 days built around one exercise most companies never sit down to do. COO Connect Boston starts Wednesday, and the very first session teaches the same model behind every company that has doubled...
Most companies post a job description and hope the right person applies. A vivid vision does something a posting never can. It shows candidates exactly what they’d actually join, in enough detail that the right people lean in and the wrong ones opt out before an...
Every COO can build a system. The harder part is deciding what to do when it involves someone they genuinely care about. In our July mastermind, COO Alliance members sat with a question most leadership content avoids. What is the hardest people decision you have made...
