Helping Sells Radio

If there is one thing I know about leadership and working and career is that when you interact with the CEO, or anyone on the c-suite, you need to minimize your time and maximize your impact. More practically speaking, you need to be the one who says, “I gotta run.” And then walk away.  “Well that seems counter-intuitive,” you say. “How can I maximize my impact, when I spend the least amount of time possible with the CEO?”  Easy.  The shorter your interactions, the more interactions you will have.  “What?!” That’s right.  Think of every interaction you have in the office. There is always one person who you see coming down the hall, and you want to avoid them. Mostly because you have someplace to be and this person will talk your ear off.  CEOs have even shorter attention-spans and much less tolerance for the details about how difficult your last customer escalation was. You do not want the CEO to see YOU coming down the hall a