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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. If you don’t, delegate it to them.

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Why My Company Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees

Harvard Business

This kind of collaboration means that there’s always two people available to help solve an engineering problem. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management). I wake up at 8 AM, barely enough time to shower and catch the subway. That’s not me.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career.