To see if a company is healthy, sometimes a tiny detail is enough. Watch how management follows the CEO’s orders.
Say the CEO tells a VP, CFO, or personal assistant to do something for you—send a staff list, pay an invoice, or brief you fast on project X.
The boss gave it top priority. Yet it’s soon clear the manager drags his feet.
How’s that? Ask him, and he’ll give a solid excuse—like a client crisis, tax audit, or pneumonia. A man who climbed so high can justify anything.
One hitch—the CEO’s order flops, and the CEO didn’t even know.
Picture yourself driving a truck on a mountain switchback. All’s good—weather, scenery, road, radio blaring a hit. Then terror hits on a turn—the rig won’t heed the wheel.
No matter how strong the engine or pretty the view. Disaster looms ahead. Any system that can’t be steered is doomed.
If someone can blow off the CEO’s call, all rules, tasks, and deals lose force. Trust and team unity sink, while fights and mistakes climb.
Luckily, control can return. Guess who’ll do it?
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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