EXECUTIVES
As an executive you know the thrill of a team working well together, pulling the load as one focused team, achieving great results year after year. You also know about the need for continuing renewal…at the individual and at the team level. Growing an organization in a fast-changing, global marketplace means each team member must operate at top performance.
Reaching top team performance takes leadership…setting the vision, having high values, selecting the right people, setting and aligning goals, developing the management and
employees, rewarding winners and celebrating success. But sustained performance also takes good management…creating loyal customers, executing the plan, designing efficient processes, organizing the units, assuring productivity and quality, and working with the employees.
As the top decision maker, you also know leadership can be lonely experience. In the end, it is you who must make the critical decisions about people and about the organization's direction. You can collaborate with your team, calling on them for advice an counsel, but it is you who is ultimately
responsible.
Sometimes things go wrong. One of your top executives does not support your new strategies; two of your team members are constantly bickering; a key unit failed to meet its yearly targets; new competition calls for radically new strategies; you need a new succession plan after your replacement left the company last year. Or, perhaps you are simply working too hard, spending too little time with your growing family.
