As the CEO, if you and one or more board members disagree on the definition of success, you need to have the hard conversations to reach alignment.
If you don’t, you’re going to have to constantly battle it out.
It will slow everything down and consume energy that’s better spent elsewhere.
It will confuse the team and have a toll on their confidence.
It may cause frustration as projects are shut down over disagreement but with unsatisfactory justification.
In other words, if you and (parts of) the board are not on the same path, figuring the path out becomes your prime concern.
If you shy away from that conversation, it will become your only concern.
Until it becomes the exit.
Have you had difficult conversation with the board?
How did you approach it?
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