A Team of Leaders, or a Leadership Team? This is a question we’ve been wrestling with. Most of us have plenty of talented people at the table. We’ve got the brains, and we’ve got people with expertise in their areas. But are they working together as a leadership team? Are they taking responsibility for the whole organization, or is each person focused primarily on their own function? One way to tell is to listen for …
My colleague Sara and I spent two days with a leadership team that was, in many ways, brand new. Most of its members had been in their roles less than a year. The organization had reorganized, and more leaders than before were now making decisions that used to sit with one or two people at the top. That kind of change is good for a business. It puts decisions closer to the work and builds …
A colleague and I were talking about her children recently. They have the same parents, grew up in the same house, and lived by the same rules. And yet, as she described them, they could hardly be more different from one another: how they approach a problem, what energizes them, what wears them out. Anyone with siblings, or with more than one child, knows this. We don’t find it strange at home. We expect it. …
