Sublime

We offer an online software-as-a-service (SaaS) management accountability system called Align, which has more than 3,000 users. It’s the CEO’s (or COO’s) tool for managing the cascading priorities, key performance indicators, and accountabilities that can become an Excel-spreadsheet nightmare when you grow beyond a handful of employees, especially

After twenty-five years, he was still poor—the Governor’s salary in 1928 was only $10,000, less than that of his cabinet officers—and he was tired of that, too; he wanted security in his old age and something to leave his sons.

“Frankly, Joe was disruptive,” says board member Tom Alberg. “What Joe wanted was to be CEO, but he wasn’t hired to do that.”

“My contribution to making it a better world is running a good JPMorgan Chase. I tell people, ‘If I don’t do a good job at JPMorgan Chase, I hurt the opportunities for our people. I hurt the opportunities for the two thousand hamlets we do business in. We can be philanthropic. We can help people grow. If I do a good job, we can do all those things.

As an example, Gazelles’ CFO has accountability for cash — she literally “counts” and reports it to the team daily. And she’s accountable for alerting the team if she senses any potential issues now or later in the year. In turn, Verne, as CEO, maintains the authority over cash, signing off on major expenditures and investments.