I am halfway through my coffee when Hemingway arrives. He sits down, pulls out a crumpled notebook and tilts his chin at the waiter. Wearing a slightly stained apron, the man is already approaching with a small glass of cloudy liquid ...
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New video just dropped:
Your team looks functional - but is it all just an act, so that real performance in your business just isn’t possible?
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People are always taking their cues from the team at the top.
So when alignment in that team slips, the rest of the organisation usually feels it long before anyone says so.
My latest LinkedIn newsletter, out now:
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My latest video:
Leadership team problems rarely stay contained at the top!
They spread through the organisation in the form of mixed messages, uncertainty, hesitation, and competing assumptions about what really matters.
It’s a problem all right!
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When a senior leadership team is not fully aligned, the effects do not stay neatly at the top. They spread through the organisation as mixed messages, slower decisions, uncertainty, silo working, and lost momentum.
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If there was one thing that separates OK leadership teams from great ones, it’s the decision to turn at least part of their attention onto how well they perform together, as a team.
But that’s actually relatively rare.
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