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Why does nobody talk about how executive leadership is mostly just managing egos?
I read this stat last week from a Harvard Business Review survey that said 67% of executives say their biggest time sink is dealing with personality conflicts, not strategy or operations. That hit me hard because I run a small plumbing crew and thought the drama was just a blue collar problem. But then I got to thinking about my last big commercial job where the project manager and the site foreman couldn't stand each other. I spent three days smoothing things over just to get a bathroom line installed. For real, if 2 out of 3 execs are babysitting grown adults, what are we even paying them for? Has anyone else found that the higher up you go, the less gets done because everyone's too busy protecting their turf?
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skylerg1729d ago
Dude this is so real. I worked at a place where the head of sales and the head of ops literally refused to be in the same meeting, and our CEO spent weeks acting like a divorce mediator instead of actually running the company. It's wild how much time gets wasted just because people can't get over themselves.
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joseph44829d ago
Oh man @skylerg17 you just described my buddy Mike's old company exactly. He worked at this tech startup where the CTO and the marketing director had this insane grudge over who got credit for a product launch. For like four months straight they would only communicate through Slack DMs to the CEO, never directly to each other. The CEO had to schedule separate one-on-ones just to get basic decisions made about the same project. Mike said entire afternoons were just the CEO walking between offices repeating the same conversation to both of them. Eventually the company missed a big funding deadline because nobody could agree on the roadmap. It's crazy how ego can just eat up company time like that.
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