
How a great entrepreneur deals with complexity
I aksed Joe Cohen at Seatwave how he deals with the ongoing complexity and varied demands on his time that come from managing a hypergrowth company, and I thought I would share the thoughts he jotted down for me:
- Oversimplify and execute well. If you make a mistake in strategy you can generally correct it by executing well even if you execute something else
- Only do what only you can do – this is really hard but if anyone in your company is able to do something the CEO should not, by defnition, do it
- Ignore the first request for everything. If it’s really important then they will ask again
- Push your team beyond what you and they think they are capable of – they will be more empowered and will be able to complete more on their own if they are reaching for a high bar
- I have 0 emails in my in box when I leave the office each day. Anything that I am cc’d on I will read on the weekend (separate folder) so I am only dealing with emails sent TO me each day
- At least once per week leave the office in the middle of the day and have lunch with my wife or go to my kids school – even if only for 30 minutes
Simple and sound advice.
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