Great COO is a 10-part series. Use this page as the table of contents and read the posts in order.

Read the series in order

  1. The COO Is the Operating System Behind the Company
  2. When You Actually Need a COO
  3. The COO Role Changes at 30, 300, and 3,000 People
  4. COO Archetypes: Which Operating Gap Are You Filling?
  5. The CEO-COO Partnership: Trust, Tension, and Proxy Authority
  6. Decision Rights: How COOs Prevent Organizational Fog
  7. Company Metabolism: Cadence, Flow, and Operating Debt
  8. Cross-Functional Execution Without Becoming the Bottleneck
  9. Accountability Without Bureaucracy
  10. The COO Operating Model Audit

Start with The COO Is the Operating System Behind the Company. If you want the practical diagnostic, jump to The COO Operating Model Audit.