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Connecting Top Managers: Developing Executive Teams for Business Success
- By Jim Taylor, Lisa Haneberg
- Published Dec 16, 2010 by FT Press.
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Supercharge executive leadership teamwork, and drive better results throughout the entire organization.
- Beyond “big dogs” and “clashing titans”–get superstars to work together.
- Define, implement, and measure effective leadership teamwork.
- Run executive team meetings that lead to action and results.
- Strengthen critical connections between leadership and the rest of the organization.
- Bring greater agility to executive teams and enterprises they lead.
Description
- Copyright 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-707156-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-707156-2
How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team’s connections with the rest of the enterprise? This book tells you how. Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they’ll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together–in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they’re already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.
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Introduction to Connecting Top Managers: A Pack of Top Dogs
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Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction A Pack of Top Dogs 1
Who This Book Is For 3
Who We Are 3
How the Book Is Organized 4
Time Is Precious 4
Endnotes 5
Chapter 1 Executive Team Execution 7
Definitions of Success 11
Measures of Success 14
Section 1: Business Results 20
Financial Performance 20
Customer Retention and Satisfaction 21
Strategic Implementation 22
Section 2: Daily Team Effectiveness 23
Decision-making Success 24
Relationship Building 25
The Team’s Reputation Within the Organization 27
Section 3: Talent Development 29
Bench Strength and Succession Planning 30
Management Team Capacity 32
Leadership Team Growth 33
Section 4: The Workplace 34
Organizational Culture 34
Employee Engagement and Retention 35
Organizational Agility 37
Which Indicators Should You Measure? 38
Endnotes 39
Chapter 2 The Clash of Titans: Executive Teaming 41
What Is Executive Teaming? 41
Dysfunction Reverberates 42
Holding Yourself to a High Standard 43
Two Executive Teaming Skills 44
Ensure Differences Don’t Lead to Clashes 46
Practice Partnership at All Times 51
The Traits of Leadership Team Partnership 53
Shared Purpose 53
Shared Ownership 53
Mutual Trust 54
Critical Thinking 54
Shared Success and Failure 55
Effective Inclusion and Communication 55
Partnership Techniques 56
Don’t Try to Control Peers 56
Spend Time Together 56
Resolve Relationship Problems 56
Represent Each Other Well 57
Never Bad Mouth 57
Own Problems and Challenges 58
Be Humble 58
Know Their Needs 59
Working on Your Teaming Skills 60
Endnotes 61
Chapter 3 Meetings Are Money 63
The Cost of Meetings Index 64
Value of Meetings Hurdle 65
Why Are You Meeting? 78
Endnotes 81
Chapter 4 Culture Is the Context and Often the Answer 83
What Is an Organization’s Cultu