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

<p>CEO of Khorus Systems and iGrafx</p> <p>Show notes: <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/mistake122">https://www.markgraban.com/mistake122</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #122 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is <a href="https://joeltrammell.com/">Joel Trammell</a>. He is CEO and Founder of Khorus Systems, a business management system that empowers CEOs to lead high-performance organizations.</p> <p>Joel is the author of books including <a href="https://amzn.to/3oGvlJv"><em>The CEO Tightrope: How to Master the Balancing Act of a Successful CEO</em></a> and his latest, available in January, titled <em>The Manager’s Playbook: Make Exceptional People Management Your Competitive Advantage</em>.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>We talk about that story and other topics including:</p> <ul> <li>Steps to avoid making that mistake?</li> <li>What are some Mistakes CEOs make in evaluating the performance of other executives?</li> <li>As boss, do you have to more expert than your team?</li> <li>“Be an expert generalist”</li> <li>Being CEO at 2 companies at the same time?</li> <li>As a CEO, what’s your role in creating a culture of learning from mistakes?</li> <li>When do you have to bring in an outsider as CEO?</li> <li>Keep Austin weird? Is it a Mistake for companies to “hire for fit”??</li> </ul> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support</a>