202206112300 Staff right-hand archetype

A right-hand staff archetype extends the reach of an executive by leaning on the executive’s scope and authority. These are typically found in complex organizations and provide extra leadership bandwidth for these large scale situations. Right Hands are the rarest of the archetypes since they are usually only found in large, complex organizations.¹

Problems that the Right Hand deals with are never purely technical and usually involve an intersection of business, technology, people, culture, and process. They often dive into fires and edit approaches, align people, delegate things effectively, and get things moving again. They only work on absolutely essential problems, but they’re always putting out the next fire as soon as one has been solved.