Ep 141 – Ops Execs and the Courage to Call Something ‘Done’
Sometimes, some things slide into the system and stay there, long after they stop serving what you’re actually here to do. If you lead ops,
Sometimes, some things slide into the system and stay there, long after they stop serving what you’re actually here to do. If you lead ops,
It’s 6:40 p.m. after a long, blurry day of meetings, your brain is fried, and you swear you’ll be done by 7. At 6:52, a
You open your calendar at 7:30 a.m. already packed days in advance. Three meetings you didn’t really need to be in. A “quick favor” that
This is something I always hear from ops execs: “I just can’t make time for strategy.” On the surface, it sounds like a scheduling thing.
In the lead‑up to a big leave or transition, there’s always this squeeze—too much to do, and not enough of you left to do it.
I often think of one of my first clients who started a session completely out-of-breath — coffee mug shaking, Slack pinging nonstop in the background.