Developing leadership teams - how to go further, faster
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Claims a leadership team can be measured on nine levels of development where most teams stall at level 3 without external help, and moving from level 2/3 to level 4–5 shifts members from siloed reporting to collective leadership. Diagnostics use six measurable factors: activism, strategic power, entropy, coherence, relationship quality, personal engagement. Rapid improvement requires focused intervention — the concrete claim is 64 hours (eight days) a year of structured work to make a team world-class. The talk cites work with ~20–25 executive boards and global examples.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Exponential change in business
- 4:14PESTLE challenges today
- 8:14Where leaders focus vs should
- 10:20Four dimensions of leadership
- 15:19Leadership team sophistication levels
- 21:24From battling experts to pluralists
- 24:14New capabilities at higher levels
- 26:43Life and leadership dimensions
- 27:46Q&A: Balancing breadth and goals
- 29:54Q&A: Overcoming team conflicts
- 31:43Q&A: Pushing back directives
- 33:31Q&A: Generative culture
- 34:57Q&A: Can team surpass leader?
- 37:05Q&A: Cross-profession interactions
- 38:30Q&A: Relationships as frontier
- 39:54Q&A: Leadership succession
- 42:22Q&A: Transforming team in 64 hours
- 44:51Q&A: Evaluating team sophistication
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