Why didn't you elevate someone from inside to the CEO position? Seems like a great way to maintain ownership (and take care of people) while also rewarding the best employees.
Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.
Great writing, btw.
I guess he'd be what some folks would call T-shaped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
> Option 3 — Find a young, aggressive, ambitious person to run Atlas
> [...]
> This would have been an amazing opportunity for the right person, but it wasn’t in the cards.
Why didn't you elevate someone from inside to the CEO position? Seems like a great way to maintain ownership (and take care of people) while also rewarding the best employees.