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6 Factors That Can Impede Effective Firm Leader - COO Relationships
One needs to keep in mind that the Firm Leader-COO team, in a sense, is two people who have been forced to work together – rather than having chosen the arrangement voluntarily. That is not intended to be pejorative, but the reality is that a COO inevitably finds him or herself with a brand new boss while at the same time, some new Firm Leader realizes that they now have to work closely with an individual whom they may not even know very well. We shouldn’t lose sight of that. So there are any number of factors that can make this “forced marriage” rather challenging, if they are not conscientiously addressed.
From my observations and in speaking with Managing Partners and COOs whom I have a great deal of regard for, at the top of my list would be . . .
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