Executive

Executives Seeing What Is Actually Happening

Customer
Someone running a 50–500 person company
Context
Deciding on information that passed through three layers of people first

The Jobs of someone for whom every report has already been filtered — and where late bad news costs far more than hearing it early.

5 Jobs

  1. 01When something is going wrong below me, I want to hear it while it is still fixable, so I am not managing a crisis that should have been a conversation.5 Pains · 5 Desired Outcomes · 5 Existing Solutions
  2. 02When my diary is full of meetings, I want to know which decisions genuinely need me, so my time goes where only I can act.5 Pains · 5 Desired Outcomes · 5 Existing Solutions
  3. 03When I announce a new direction, I want to know whether it actually changes what people do daily, so I do not discover after a year that nothing moved.5 Pains · 5 Desired Outcomes · 5 Existing Solutions
  4. 04When I must choose a direction on incomplete information, I want to know whether I have enough to decide, so I do not delay until the choice disappears on its own.5 Pains · 5 Desired Outcomes · 5 Existing Solutions
  5. 05When I cannot pay the top of the market, I want to keep my best people, so the company does not become a training ground for competitors.5 Pains · 5 Desired Outcomes · 5 Existing Solutions