Two Ways to Improve Your CEO’s Success Rate When Proposing Something to the Board

If your CEO has a poor track record of proposing something to the board and getting them to like it, consider giving the CEO this advice. Have the CEO imagine they are in the board’s shoes – if the board feels like they got blind-sided by a proposal, a normal knee-jerk reaction to any surprise is to question it.

Similarly, if a director whom the other board members respect questions a proposal from the CEO, the rest of the board might suddenly feel uneasy. Even if the director who originally questions the proposal gets satisfied with the CEO’s explanation, that uneasiness can continue to persist in the minds of others.

So there are two avenues the CEO can take to improve their track record.

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