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Hi I’m Jim Muehlhausen author of “The 51 Fatal Business Errors” and “The Eight CEO Secrets: Avoiding Peacock Management”. Let’s face it. CEO’s are problem solvers by nature. The buck stops with us.
We learned very early in our tenth year to excel at problem solving. In fact, we learn so well, there’s no problem we can’t solve. Have you had an issue in the past year that you didn’t immediately know a solution? Having solutions to a problem is great. However, during the cycle of quick problem solving, we train ourselves to believe that, “There’s no problem I can’t solve”.
Quick, off-the-hip solutions provided by one person’s experiences and opinions are rarely the optimal solution. This type of solution is just a solution. For instance, I can solve the problem of high gasoline by prohibiting automobiles. Demand would fall and so with prices. However, entire industries will be crippled as well as numerous other problems. My solution to this business problem is just that, a solution.
There are many best of breed solution that I simply don‘t have the resources or the knowledge to create for this. Quick problem solving is typically not a solid business strategy either. To ensure optimal business growth, you must engage in a strategic planning process. Sitting at your desk and whipping out solutions is not a strategic planning process. Hard at being the boss is knowing when to involve others in decision-making.
Your job as CEO is to provide best of breed solutions not just a solution. When a CEO treats their solution as if it’s a best of breed solution, this is what we call as peacock management. The CEO strikes around like a problem peacock with feathers all up in the air. Instead, create outlets to gain access to industry and general best practices.
One of my clients has a great say “I want to assume that everything I’m doing is wrong, not right and then prove it to be right. This saying is the exact opposite of how most confident CEO’s think. Most CEO’s work from the presumption that their ideas are right from the beginning and best of breed from the beginning. This occasionally causes them to forge their head with false confidence.
To learn more about the CEO secret as well as the seven secrets, go to the bottom of this page, type in your first name and your email and I’ll send you the free report. I’ll look forward to speaking with you on the next page as well.
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