Jack McGuinness
The Dangers of Loose Expectations
If you want great results, assuming your team understands the outcomes you’re looking for is the best way not to get them.
Crisis Leadership Is Not Sustainable
The challenge is to move beyond "brute force leadership" and build a team that utilizes positive characteristics of leading in a crisis—but sets aside the dysfunction.
Fear Is A Bad Leadership Team Principle
The CEO’s most important job is to model behaviors that squash fear, such as minimizing emotional outbursts, encouraging teammates to challenge him or her, and fostering debate.
Four Features That Define Great Leadership Teams
Great leadership teams can accelerate performance, but they can also get in their own way and hold back progress. The following characteristics, while somewhat intangible and hard to measure, lead organizations to thrive.
Great Leadership Teams Move Beyond Assumptions
Here are three actions that leadership teams and team members can take to strengthen the team’s ability to engage in productive dialogue and move its most important issues forward.
A Systems View of Leadership Team Effectivenes
While it is not easy to build a leadership team that functions on all cylinders, the benefits can be dramatic for the team and, more importantly, for the organization it serves.
Nurturing Is Critical For Maintaining A Great Leadership Team
Without nurturing leadership teams tend to function as groups of individuals rather than as organizational force multipliers. Below are three practical steps leadership teams can take to ensure their teams get in and stay in alignment.
Great Leadership Teams Optimize Collaboration
Collaboration is one of those 'obvious' things that leadership teams are supposed to be good at. Unfortunately, many struggle to find an optimal balance between working independently and working collaboratively.
How Leadership Teams Can Recover from Toxicity
Toxic or even moderately dysfunctional leadership teams can cause long-term harm to leadership team members and their employees. Here's a look at how leadership teams can recover from toxic environments.
How To Measure Leadership Team Effectiveness
Effective leadership teams serve as stewards for their organizations – the board of directors, investors, employees rely on leadership teams to set direction, allocate resources, monitor progress and overcome roadblocks.
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