Executive Teams

"What makes the difference between effective and ineffective teams?"

"Why has the shift to executive teams seemed to accelerate recently? Three factors emerge: external demands, organizational complexity, and succession."

"Executive team performance is seen as being directly influenced by the quality, effectiveness, and appropriate shaping of three core processes."

"Synthetic teamwork has several negative consequences."

"Successful CEOs share an ability to articulate and communicate a vision of the organization that captures the imagination of the people they lead."

"Too often membership on the executive team is extended in the interests of maintaining symmetry; that is not a goal that necessarily ensures the right people are included and the extraneous ones are left out."

"When people leave the executive team there is nowhere to go but down or out."

"Establishing trust is worth the effort because it can become a valuable resource and a competitive weapon for an executive team."

"How the conflict is handled can contribute to clarity, focused energy, and committed action?or to increased distance and polarization among the involved parties. "

"Executive team members often find themselves in a quandary when they realize that their task is no longer advocacy but arbitrating among the different and dissimilar claims made on the corporation."