How to quickly spot key problems in your exec team
A guide for founders (and board members!)
One of the great ironies of startup life is that the more time an exec team spends preparing to run a board meeting, the more problems it reveals within the exec team.
Problems in an exec team invariably affect the entire company so its a valuable exercise for a CEO to reflect on their board prep and output to diagnose key problems in the team. This issue covers how to do that, including:
How to spot an exec team that is misaligned on strategy
How to spot an exec team with a prioritization problem
How to spot an exec team with a planning problem
How to spot an exec team with an execution problem
How to spot an exec team that is hiding from reality