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Senior Leadership Teams

What It Takes to Make Them Great
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Senior Leadership Teams explores the dynamics and challenges faced by senior executive teams in organisations. The authors delve into the importance of team effectiveness at the top level, providing insights on how these teams can enhance their decision-making and leadership capabilities. By examining real-world examples, the book outlines critical principles for fostering collaboration and improving overall organisational performance.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in understanding the dynamics of effective senior leadership teams in a business setting. It offers insights into the organisational strategies and practices that can bolster teamwork at the highest level, making it ideal for anyone keen on enhancing leadership efficacy and fostering successful collaboration in entrepreneurial environments.

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An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO - right? Not according to the authors, they argue that in this 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.

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An organisation'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.

The 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 organisation forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward.

The authors explain how to determine whether your organisation needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of over 100 top teams from around the world, they explain how to create a clear and compelling purpose for your team, get the right people on it, provide structure and support, and sharpen team members' competencies—and your own.

Timely and practical, this book enables you to create and sustain a leadership team whose members learn from one another while collaborating to pursue your company's objectives.

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Senior Leadership Teams is praised for offering practical advice on how top professionals can collaborate effectively. The book combines firsthand knowledge with real-life examples to provide essential guidance on fostering teamwork and success in leadership.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781422103364

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 January 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: figures

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 581g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Ruth Wageman is Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University and Director of Research for Hay Group.

Debra Nunes and James Burruss are Vice Presidents at Hay Group's McClelland Institute for Research and Innovation.

J. Richard Hackman is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University. He resides in Bethany, Connecticut and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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