COO – the “Secret Weapon,” – 2 or 3 parts
The COO agenda focuses on actions only they can take and ensures optimal resource allocation is optimized.
Satish Mehta is a corporate executive turned entrepreneur, and now an author. For corporations, he led five start-ups, four turnarounds, one acquisition & generated rapid growth seven times. His self-owned businesses include six start-ups of which two were acquired.
As a coach and consultant to senior executives, he helps Entrepreneurial and Corporate Startups gain funding, grow customers, revenue and profits. As an interim Executive, he creates and navigates high-performance teams; enter new markets, launch new products/services, and establish new channels and technology platforms.
He has worked in executive and consultant capacity at:
AT&T
Lucent
Telcordia
General Instruments
McKesson
Walbridge Construction
Signal Lake Venture Capital, and
several incubators and startups.
As an author, he is now sharing the lessons he has learned and the skills he has practiced over four decades all over the world.
His first book titled, "World is a bazaar, Life is a Negotiation," came out in 2017 and will be distributed to over 700 professionals he has trained in negotiation skills. He believes that these skills when applied are not just relevant to your professional life, they can improve all facets of lives of everyone.
The COO agenda focuses on actions only they can take and ensures optimal resource allocation is optimized.
At a speaking opportunity, I asked several senior executives to name the CEOs of Microsoft, Facebook (Meta), Google, and IBM. They all knew the names – Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Sunder Pichai, and Arvind Krishna. Next, I asked, “Who are the COOs of the same companies?”
Crickets! No answer.
The CEOs are mostly public-facing and deal with external constituencies and stakeholders. People can name dozens of famous CEOs. But how about COOs? Not so much.
The COO is the “Secret Weapon” of the C-suite, building organizational strength and exemplary employees. …
For just a small investment of your time and money, Dhaakar’s Negotiation and Leadership will teach you to deal with difficult people and hard bargainers, more effectively structure deals, and manage conflict more productively.
Woodworking or playing harmonica recharges your mental and physical batteries more effectively than watching geriatrics win elections.
Most common trait of successful leaders is their ability to negotiate skillfully.
Find, connect, support, and broadcast those who trust and believe in you.
When you start a small business, engage in free-market competitive thinking, and when you have a “trapped” customer base, act like you don’t.
It gets more compelling and challenging as you progress from doing it by the rules to making a change happen.