Your Chief of Staff is Your Chief Transformation Officer

CEOs, COOs and other top executives, here’s the secret to massively reducing risk as you transform your operating model. Appoint your Chief of Staff as the Chief Transformation Officer for your company. 

Keep reading for the reasons why…

Your Chief of Staff can lead internal transformation projects that radically update your operating system while managing down risk of failure. And they are the best politically and practically situated resource to drive enterprise-wide operational excellence.

Reduce political risk

Afraid of employee backlash around a new strategic planning rhythm of the business? Your Chief of Staff can help make this initiative politically successful.

Your Chief of Staff is likely a rising-star midcareer professional with C-suite sponsorship, so they possess the lived experience and employee-specific language to speak persuasively to early career, mid-career AND late career folks.

Their agenda isn’t strongly perceived as top-down as much as middle and out. In other words, they can be highly relatable and credible as they rapidly transform your operating system.

Reduce execution risk

And as opposed to your C-suite peers who are entrenched in their ways of working, your Chief of Staff is a free agent who is unencumbered by direct reports.

This means that they can practically implement new enterprise-wide operating models, i.e. meeting protocol & reporting cadences, with less fear of political reprisal. Not to mention they are much more agile and nimble to execute on such cross-functional projects, since they aren’t distracted by managerial duties.

Reduce personnel risk

Finally, your Chief of Staff is uniquely suited with the right temperament to drive operational excellence. Since your Chief of Staff has a huge workload, they are usually your most selfish employee in terms of their time. Therefore they are impatient at getting things done and embrace quick change that drives efficiency.

For these reasons, we believe at Cedar that you should appoint your Chief of Staff as the system administrator for your entire organization.

CEOs, COOs and CPOs, it's up to you to take this risk-reduction step as you change your operating model. Go on, the fate of your company depends on it.

Let me know if you have any questions or run into any problems. And if you want to learn more about how we can help you move your Chief of Staff into the Chief Transformation Officer role for your organization, reply “TRANSFORM” to this email.

Chief of Staff Jobs

Welcome to our Chief of Staff job board. As always, if you have a Chief of Staff job you’d like shared to 1,000+ readers of this newsletter, let us know.

Chief of Staff & Culture, Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta, GA

Chief of Staff, Product, Patreon, New York, NY

Chief of Staff, Chorus Innovations, Long Beach, CA

Chief of Staff, 49ers, San Francisco, CA

Chief of Staff, Quest Partners, New York, NY

Chief of Staff/Analyst, Mucker Capital, Austin, TX

Chief of Staff (Contract), Wells Fargo, Chandler, AZ

Director of Strategic Planning and Programs (Chief of Staff), Payoneer, New York, NY

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Until next week,

Mackenzie

Mackenzie Lee | Founder & CEO
M: 650.283.4152 | E: [email protected]
New York City, NY & Palo Alto, CA
www.CedarChief.com

Cedar specializes in helping top executives let go and do more by building their Leadership OS - an operating system that turns your C-suite team into fast & fearless leaders.

Our unique process involves ex-management consultants, former Chiefs of Staff, executive search partners and top engineers who build integrated operating systems of people, process and technology that produce highly effective leaders. This can include hiring your Chief of Staff, defining CEO Protocol, and building out your Office of the CEO. On average our clients see a 25% meeting reduction, 20% strategic sales increase, and 2x speed-to-execution in their first 90 days with us. Data is continuously analyzed to improve system performance and accelerate growth.