Our team is hired because founders need someone to challenge their thinking and give them the reality check before a bad decision hurts their business.
This is normally advice they don’t get from their current team out of fear. Who wants to tell the founder of the company they are wrong and put their job at risk?
A recent recurring topic of discussion is a return to work mandate. Employees who have thrived working from home are now being told to return to the office or find a new job.
But the one comment that took the cake? A leader that said they didn’t want employees working from home and viewed them as anti-social.
Here’s that reality check I mentioned earlier: If your business is in an industry that offers remote work and your company doesn’t - you are handing your best talent straight to your competitors.
We saw the shift in the war for talent post COVID. Companies willing to offer remote work attracted top talent and those who did not offer it had a much different candidate pool.
Picture two competing tech startups going after the exact same lead engineer in California. Startup A requires a 45-minute daily commute. Startup B offers remote flexibility. Startup B wins that talent war every single time.
If you are a founder having this internal debate, make sure you have an advisor that isn’t afraid to give you the advice you really need to hear.