077 - Chief Enabling Officer

One of my clients, who runs a major advertising agency in Richmond, introduced himself to our Vistage CEO peer group as the “Chief Enabling Officer”. In today’s episode, I share with you a story about one of my early bosses, Hassan, who was a Chief Enabling Officer of the Structured Finance department of the bank where I worked 20 years ago. Hassan never seemed to be doing much work himself, other than coaching the twelve of us in the department... lobbying senior management for resources... negotiating with other departments we had to deal with... and generally removing any obstacles from our way... so that we could power ahead without the frustrations and frictions I experienced in my previous jobs

Tune into today’s Succession Secrets show to hear this story, or just scan the transcripts on http://successionsecrets.com.

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