CEO, Are You Getting Enough From Your VPs?

Why do so many brilliant strategies fail during execution? Because the layer responsible for pulling the levers (the VPs) are playing the wrong game. They are operating with functional expertise, but zero systemic view. They wait for direction on the how and the when, leaving the CEO to act as the ultimate air traffic controller for every cross-functional dependency. It’s exhausting, and it’s unsustainable. But there’s a flip side to this. This middle-executive layer is also where the mos...