Bob Frisch is one smart professional, with some great guidance for senior managers and CEO’s in his new book: “Who’s In the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them.”
His lifetime experience as a strategy consultant working with senior management teams comes through loud and clear as he shares some fairly blunt and important perspectives on how decisions at the top are really made.
If you think like many do, that it’s the senior management team locked behind doors engaged in deep debate and ultimately adjudicating as a group on the tough strategic calls, Bob is here to tell us all that this view is wrong! Instead, think CEO backed by a shifting membership on a “Kitchen Cabinet” of advisors as the real sources of senior-level decision-making.
Lest you senior managers feel somewhat disenfranchised by this view on your lack of responsibility for key decisions, Bob is also here to showcase three areas where senior team involvement and performance is critical.
Enjoy the podcast and the book…I know that I did! Bob’s a thoughtful, articulate guest with some great insights to share.
For more on the book (including a free excerpt) and on Bob’s work as Managing Partner of Strategic Offsites Group, visit the dedicated book site at http://whosintheroom.com/
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Art Petty is a Chicago-based management consultant focusing on strategy and leadership development. Art regularly speaks on innovation in management and leadership, and his work is reflected in two books, including the recent, Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development. (download a free excerpt at Art’s facebook page.)
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Great interview. Bob is a great guest.
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