Do you have all the answers? Then you don't have enough questions!
An experienced CEO resource can help illuminate better answers and execution plans for the most challenging questions a CEO and Board will face. A few examples:
Investors
- Can your cost structure and selling model handle the new market dynamics of 2009?
- Are you getting what you need from board meetings?
- Are you and your CEO working on the same page?
- Do you have a high-potential CEO who has not yet had the experience to be as effective as needed in monetizing the potential of your company?
- Is the current plan unrealistically aggressive or unfundably low?
- Are there transformation challenges in the business that could benefit from help on structuring the execution for efficiency?
- Do you know if you are
truly competitive? Moving ahead or falling behind?
CEOs
- Is the challenge of the CEO role new? Are there high-stakes topics you are dealing with for the first time? Would an objective experienced resource help you optimize your thinking?
- Do you know what the board is asking for?
- Is board preparation too time-consuming, not valued, not worthwhile?
- What do you want from your board?
- Can your cash reserves handle the new 2009 market dynamics? Is your cost structure and selling model right-sized for these new realities?
- Are you reaching bottlenecks in your business and don’t know how to harness your inside/outside resources to break them?
- Do you know if you are competitive? Moving ahead or falling behind?
- Do you need to transform some aspect of your company? Product, Sales, Partners?
- Is your business plan too aggressive? Do the alternatives appear unfundable?
- Does your team have all
the DNA you need to plan and execute?