CEO Joel Trammell Had Trouble Hiring a VP of Marketing, Again and Again

CEO of Khorus Systems and iGrafx Show notes: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake122 My guest for Episode #122 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Joel Trammell. He is CEO and Founder of Khorus Systems, a business management system that empowers CEOs to lead high-performance organizations. Joel is the author of books including The CEO Tightrope: How to Master the Balancing Act of a Successful CEO and his latest, available in January, titled The Manager’s Playbook: Make Exceptional People Management Your Competitive Advantage. In today's episode, Joel shares his “favorite mistake” story about having trouble, multiple times, finding the right VP of Marketing for a startup company. We talk about that story and other topics including: Steps to avoid making that mistake? What are some Mistakes CEOs make in evaluating the performance of other executives? As boss, do you have to more expert than your team? “Be an expert generalist” Being CEO at 2 companies at the same time? As a CEO, what’s your role in creating a culture of learning from mistakes? When do you have to bring in an outsider as CEO? Keep Austin weird? Is it a Mistake for companies to “hire for fit”?? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support