031 Am I Supposed to Decide This? | M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust CEO Romanita Hairston

The hard calls, the ones that are 51/49, are supposed to land on the CEO's desk. Romanita Hairston warns that without a clear escalation framework, you'll be doing the wrong work. "You can be making 51/49 decisions, but not the most consequential ones," she says. One of her first moves after becoming CEO of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in 2022 was a strategy decision. The Trust affirmed its identity as a capacity-building institution and cut the sectors it served in half, fro...