Bring Value and you'll have a Job

We had what was hopefully the second to last manage-by-committee meeting this morning. In this meeting I elected our finance guy to be CEO. Our marketing guy said he was personally disappointed as he thought he was in line for the job. He also went on to justify his less than stellar performance of late. Mainly, his botched job of managing the sales function. He blamed the sales director for rewriting all his marketing materials and he blamed us for not firing the sales director. He also referenced some personal issue between himself and the sales director. None of which is a real ringing endorsement for his leadership ability.

He was also concerned that he might be exited by the new CEO, to which our answer was obvious: continue to bring value and you'll have a job. Seems obvious.

Otherwise the meeting went well and we are all in agreement about replacing the committed committee with a real CEO.