When it comes to running a business, every CEO wants to know if they’re making the best decisions for the financial future of their company. However, it’s virtually impossible for the CEO to be all things to all people which makes them overworked, exhausted, and sometimes even paralyzed not knowing who they can go to for advice. Every CEO deserves to have a business that maximizes cash flow and profits. 

Most CEOs spend their time buried in the day-to-day routine and have difficulty seeing beyond tomorrow. Spending no time thinking about the business, they don’t lead their people as well as they could. To lead well means escaping from the office on a regular basis for an hour or so.  By working on themselves and the business, CEOs rise from frustrated and overwhelmed to clear-headed and confident.   

This was the certainly the case for a CEO I work with. I’ll call him James. James was named CEO of this professional services firm with 50+ people. He inherited the role from an old school CEO who believed that the business comes to you and in top-down management. This style left holes in the organization when it came to business development, talent development, and talent management. James knew he couldn’t do it alone, he needed help.  

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