[ChuckMcM]

That is a super opportunity!

If you can, attend meetings with the CEO with the goal of observing these things;

   * Conflict resolution
   * Group commitment
   * Performance management and expectation setting
   * Information sharing/hiding
   * Individual empowerment and delegation

Those are the key interactions that come to mind when operating a company on a day to day basis. I'd suggest you take notes of all your observations at the meeting and then spend ask the CEO to tell you what they saw. What did they like? What concerned them? Given the meeting what did they see as the actions that would best help the situation move forward toward resolution.

Dan Warmenhoven once told me that he spent a lot of time trying to help people get things finished. As he described it, people can get caught up in the thrill of "doing things" and that is great, but they can also be afraid of the "what am I going to do after this is done?" question. As a result the project they are working on stretches on and on because it pushes off the scary question of "What next?"

It is a balancing act to keep what ever comes next exciting enough that people want to finish the current project and get on to it, versus making the next project so exciting that they cut corners finishing the current project to get on to it!