When it comes to being a CEO, the little things will often come to matter the most.
That's according to Siadhal Magos, CEO and co-founder of Metaview, who says that business leaders need to take the small choices as seriously as the big ones. You never know which small tactical decision will have dramatic strategic events down the line. That's also an argument for making those decisions quickly, he says, rather than let them linger.
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In many cases, there's a big delay between making a decision and the impact of that decision. And you sort of only realize looking back, you know, 6121824 months later are OK, We made this fundamentally different decision to maybe competitor X or analog company Y or whatever it might be. And that's why we now have this advantage. And we probably didn't understand fully all of the implications of that decision at the time, but actually that's the core reason why we have this maybe. Infrastructure advantage at this point, our business model advantage or whatever it might be. So it's quite comforting actually, because of course, as a founder or CEO, you spend a lot of time on, you know, hundreds of mini decisions every week or month, whatever your timescale is. And sort of sometimes you can sort of get bogged down and thinking, well, hang on, these aren't, these aren't the big things. And of course the really big decisions to come along as well. But actually, sometimes you'd be surprised. I think having that real diligence and discipline around actually taking every decision you make quite seriously and, and understanding of course, which are really important. Would bet the company decisions which are just, you know, quick decision is better than, you know, quick wrong decision is better than a slow correct decision. And being able to file things away correctly, those are really important and that's the sort of thing you're doing every day.
