Startup CXO

Chapter 123The Future of Executive Work

Matt Blumberg

While the ideas in this book are focused on scaling up your company, it's not the case that every company will be able to scale up with their existing talent. Even after you read the book and try to implement the ideas, you may still find that you're not ready to bring senior people in, you're not able to level up your existing leaders, or you may just not have enough people and not be able to afford the talent you need. What are your options if you're stuck in the middle? We've got an answer for you here.

One of the things we're most passionate about is the emergence of a new role that aligns perfectly with the dynamic talent needs that startups have: the fractional executive. Bringing in seasoned, experienced, executives on a fractional basis to build a function is a great alternative to the traditional executive hiring model that lets startups scale more elegantly. In fact, we're so excited about the possibility of helping executives and the startups and scaleups that need them that we created a new company, Bolster, that matches executives (members) with companies (clients).

What we see in today's business world is increasingly shorter tenures for senior executives—people with deep experience operationally and strategically—and enormous difficulties for startups and scaleups to identify, vet, and hire people who can help them get to that next level.

Welcome to the Executive Gig Economy

The gig economy that started ...