The operating system of the company is culture. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
The CEO is the architect of the company and what it should look like so that you can do your life’s work and feel empowered by inspiration, not manipulation.
By definition, the CEO should have the most reports because the people reporting to the CEO are highly competent and require little management.
The CEO’s knowledge is secretive and highly effective, and he can share secrets with only 2-3 people.
I don’t believe in a culture or environment where the information you possess is the reason you have power.
The CEO needs to create circumstances where you, as a follower, understand the context, which means you need to be informed.
CEOs have to eliminate information mutilation that is done by corporate layers.
A CEO with few reports is like a kingdom where the only purpose of soldiers is to serve The King and generals, and soldiers are destined to die with little information in the battle.
The management team exists to create an environment where the contribution to the company is the ability to reason through complications, lead other people to achieve greatness, inspire and empower other people, and create boundary conditions where all these amazing people volunteer to come to work for you instead of other amazing tech companies around the world.
The CEO goes forward in time and looks backwards. Employees replicate this in solving problems. They understand the end result and work backwards to achieve it.
The election, the volunteering is the follower choice. It projects your leadership maturity They are inspired to dedicate their efforts with you, driven by a shared purpose beyond individual desires.
The condition should result in a great deal of empowerment. You can be empowered if you understand the circumstances. You must understand the context of the situation you and your company are in to come up with great ideas.
The employee’s job as a follower is to make a unique contribution and live a life at work of purpose. To do something for the world that nobody else would do or can do. The world is better because you are here.
CEO operates like AI grounding, reinforcement learning guided by human feedback.