Tom and Laura Gozney: “Reduce your direct reports — within reason”

Reduce direct reports — within reason. A top tip I wish someone had told me before becoming a CEO is, reduce your direct reports. This is in place today, however since I had a similar high position in the company early in the company’s development, there was a time when I had many direct reports. These were hard to reduce as I didn’t want to necessarily stop my close relationships with team members, plus, I was being a control freak. The sooner you can empower your management team to deal with filtering out the daily ‘noise’ of running a business, the better, and you can focus on the important tasks. I still, however, ensure my door is open for special circumstances to anyone in the company (a key part of our culture and the sharing of new ideas.)

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom and Laura Gozney. They started Gozney by making…