Connecting top managers : developing executive teams for business success
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 en...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
FT Press
2010
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628882206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Pack of Top Dogs
- Who This Book Is For
- Who We Are
- How the Book Is Organized
- Time Is Precious
- Endnotes
- Chapter 1 Executive Team Execution
- Definitions of Success
- Measures of Success
- Section 1: Business Results
- Financial Performance
- Customer Retention and Satisfaction
- Strategic Implementation
- Section 2: Daily Team Effectiveness
- Decision-making Success
- Relationship Building
- The Team's Reputation Within the Organization
- Section 3: Talent Development
- Bench Strength and Succession Planning
- Management Team Capacity
- Leadership Team Growth
- Section 4: The Workplace
- Organizational Culture
- Employee Engagement and Retention
- Organizational Agility
- Which Indicators Should You Measure?
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2 The Clash of Titans: Executive Teaming
- What Is Executive Teaming?
- Dysfunction Reverberates
- Holding Yourself to a High Standard
- Two Executive Teaming Skills
- Ensure Differences Don't Lead to Clashes
- Practice Partnership at All Times
- The Traits of Leadership Team Partnership
- Shared Purpose
- Shared Ownership
- Mutual Trust
- Critical Thinking
- Shared Success and Failure
- Effective Inclusion and Communication
- Partnership Techniques
- Don't Try to Control Peers
- Spend Time Together
- Resolve Relationship Problems
- Represent Each Other Well
- Never Bad Mouth
- Own Problems and Challenges
- Be Humble
- Know Their Needs
- Working on Your Teaming Skills
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3 Meetings Are Money
- The Cost of Meetings Index
- Value of Meetings Hurdle
- Why Are You Meeting?
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4 Culture Is the Context and Often the Answer
- What Is an Organization's Culture?
- How Are Organizational Cultures Formed and Changed?
- Improving the Organization's Culture.
- Define the Desired Culture
- Define the Current Culture
- Assess Capacity for Change (C4C)
- Create Plan for Cultural Improvement
- Be the Culture
- Endnotes
- Chapter 5 They Are All Moments of Truth
- Be Fast or Fail
- Successful Moments of Truth
- How to Quickly Make a Positive Impact and Build Relationships
- Trust
- Credibility
- Familiarity
- Connection to You and the Team
- Connection to the Organization
- Interest, Passion, and Enrollment
- Clarity, Commitment, and Focus
- Make a Splash!
- All for One, One for All
- Endnotes
- Chapter 6 Getting Better Together
- Leadership Team Member Capabilities
- More Than Competencies
- Intra-Team Talent Reviews
- Peer Coaching
- Team Assignments
- Team Development Events
- Endnotes
- Chapter 7 Creating an Agile Organization
- A Primer on Organizational Agility
- What Is Organizational Agility?
- Model of Organizational Agility
- Focus
- Resources
- Performance
- Five Benefits of Organizational Agility
- Organizational Agility: Two Scenarios
- Assessment: How Agile Is Your Organization?
- Individual and Leadership Team Agility
- Endnotes
- Chapter 8 Leadership Team Strategies for Remaining Union-Free
- 10 Early Warning Signs
- 10 Reasons Employees Organize
- 12 Issues Targeted by Unions
- 12 Reasons for Union-Organizing Success
- Be Visible and Known and Build Relationships at All Levels
- Measure and Improve Your Organization's Connectivity Index
- Ensure Role Clarity for Management Positions
- Shore Up Management Fundamentals from Top to Bottom
- Endnotes
- Conclusion: A Manifesto About Love and Leadership
- Will You Go for the Gold?
- Executive Team Execution
- The Clash of Titans: Executive Teaming
- Meetings Are Money
- Culture Is the Context and Often the Answer
- They Are All Moments of Truth
- Getting Better Together.
- Creating an Agile Organization
- Leadership Team Strategies for Remaining Union-Free
- Endnotes
- Appendix: The Leadership Team Excellence Assessment
- The Leadership Team Survey
- Part 1: How We Measure Success
- Part 2: How We Spend Time Together
- Part 3: How We Impact Organizational Excellence
- The Leadership Team Survey with Discussion Notes
- Part 1: How We Measure Success
- Part 2: How We Spend Time Together
- Part 3: How We Impact Organizational Excellence
- The Leadership Team Survey as a Tool for Development
- References
- About the Authors
- Index.
