The move
The move from operator to executive is not a promotion. It is a different practice. The room is the boardroom; the evidence is different; the cadence is different; the work is different.
What changes
The chair's job is to surface the question, not to answer it. The operator's job is to answer the question. The work is to bring the operator's instinct into the boardroom and to not bring the operator's habit.
- Surface the question, not the answer
- Hold the line on the evidence, not the opinion
- Read the room, not the spreadsheet
