The Book

Batman and Robin: The CEO-COO Dynamic

By Ilse Rew

Batman gets all the press. This one is for Robin.

Batman and Robin is a field-tested operating methodology for the CEO-COO partnership and beyond — written not from the consulting seat or the business school classroom, but from the operational seat. 

Twenty-five years of entering organizations as an operations leader. Diagnosing what was broken. Building what was missing. Navigating the specific human and political complexity of being the person responsible for making someone else's vision operational.

The book covers the foundational COO operating system, the five entry scenarios that determine a COO's starting conditions, the hard dynamics most leadership books skip entirely, and the specific experience of navigating this work as a woman. It closes with the coaching methodology that converts the framework into proven practice.