Senior Leadership Teams

Members of senior teams have a dilemma.

On the one hand, they are responsible for leading their own organizational units. On the other, they are expected to be fully engaged and committed members of the enterprise's senior team. It can feel like being caught in two powerful crosscurrents.

Given a choice about how to spend their time, most of the executives we have talked with do not hesitate: "Just let me focus on my real job," they say, "rather than waste all this time in endless meetings that accomplish nothing". For many overburdened executives, senior team meetings ecome obligatory appearances at events that have little to do with their leadership roles or the pressing organizational issues they face — and understandably, they would rather be somewhere else.

It doesn't have to be that way.

1. The Fall of the Heroic CEO and the Rise of the Leadership Team
• Part I: The Essentials
2. First, Decide if you Need — and Want — a Team
3. Create a Compelling Purpose for Your Leadership Team
4. Get the Right People on your Team — and the Wrong Ones Off
• Part II: The Enablers
5. Give Your Leadership Team the Structure It Needs to Work
6. Give Your Leadership team the Support It Needs to Succeed
7. Coach Your Team — and Timing Is Everything
• Part III: Leading a Leadership Team
8. Develop Your Own Team Leadership Competencies
9. What It Takes to Make Them Great