Blog
- Why It Makes Sense to Think About Your Replacement From Day 1 (2/11/2022) - It makes sense to think about your chief of staff replacement from Day 1. Here's why.
- Mixer Recap: OKR Planning and Retros (11/16/2021) - Our guest, Prasanna Venkatesan, Strategic Services Manager at Ally.io, walked us through best practices for reflecting on OKRs in a systematic way and turning learning into planning for the next round.
- Webinar Recap – So, You’ve Implemented OKRs – Now What? (10/6/2021) - A chiefofstaff.expert webinar featuring Wendy Pat Fong, Customer Transformation Manager at Ally.io and former chief of staff, exploring challenges with OKRs beyond the initial rollout.
- The Post Covid19 CoS, Pt. 1: Reading The Room When There Is No Room (5/26/2020) - Resources to help you lead or navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on your workplace.
- For Such A Time As This: Resources for Chiefs of Staff During Covid-19 (5/3/2020) - Resources to help you lead or navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on your workplace.
- Playing Chess, Not Checkers: Intuit’s Brad Smith on the Value of a Chief of Staff Role (5/3/2020) - You've heard me talk about the chief of staff role, but what about the CEO's perspective on the value it can bring? I interview Intuit's Chairman and former CEO, Brad Smith.
- Leading with Power as Chief of Staff (1/30/2020) - Chiefs of staff are not always comfortable weilding power, but power is an essential tool in your tool kit. You ignore it at your - and your exec's - peril.
- Why Simplifying Isn’t Always The Best Answer to Complexity (6/4/2019) - Guest Aaron Rinehard argues that in an increasingly complex world, simplifying isn’t always the best way for leadership teams to deal with complexity.
- Congrats! You’ve been asked to set up a comms function – now what? (6/4/2019) - Chiefs of staff in just about every organization play a role in executive communications, but what if you're asked to set it up a comms team from scratch?
- Is Your Exec Managing Too Many Direct Reports? (6/4/2019) - Is your exec managing too many direct reports? How would you know? Explore some different approaches to span of control.