The new CEO is a bit too enthusiastic and energetic for the time being. He suggests something and when we tell him that it doesn't quiet work that way, he wants to try it anyhow and arrive at the same conclusion himself.
No problem! His time, his energy... Kind of like Sisyphus. I like him. He is always nice and smiling. Just a bit hyper, that's all.
The problem is, they have set out to change a lot of things all at once before understanding how everything works. They will lose more sleep than they intend to but, I guess, it is a part of learning.
For instance there is an application that we use to track sales and we chose to use it at a very basic level up until now. It is USD 25 per person per month and it works.
The new CEO comes from an international organization and he is used to the Enterprise edition of this application. The cost? USD 150 per person per month. In our case, only 7 people use it actively. If we decide to make it organization-wide, that will have to be USD 150x30 versus USD 25x7. Big difference... No?
Hopefully the newbie will settle into a routine and not be quite so RAH RAH all the time :) There's always and adjustment period and at least he's smiling - that's a good quality to have :)
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