An organization’s fate hinges on its CEO—right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams.
They argue that in today''s world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise''s senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creating a leadership team.
One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team''s shared work. Without the CEO''s careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organization forward. Sometimes they don''t even agree about what constitutes the right path forward. The authors explain how to determine whether your organization needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of 100+ top teams fr
