March 2019 » L.E.A.D

This practical guide will help leaders in any field implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos, improve collaboration, and avoid turf wars. By committing to one higher mission, organizations develop an overall capability that far exceeds the sum of their parts.
Read the extracts of Chris Fussel’s book on this L.E.A.D X-board.

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Managers who are expected to create and manage cross-functional collaborations or resolve conflicts are increasingly overwhelmed by the noise of day-to-day.

Why Do Good People Quit Your Company?

The overwhelming amount of information moving in today's environment makes being an effective information pump increasingly time-consuming.

In a bureaucracy, senior leaders are granted authority over tactical units and are expected to play the role of 'information pumps' between units.

Not only does pure bureaucracy destroy narrative unity, but it also puts people in positions where they cannot keep up with a rapidly changing environment.

A formalized org chart that doesn't account for human and environmental subjectivity can quickly destroy teams' sense of mission.

For generations, organizational structures haven been heavily influenced, if not defined by, the idea of bureaucracy: a centrally controlled method of managing sprawling lattices of teams.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Today's organizations clearly face new types of interconnected and complex environments; therefore, they require an organizational model designed to handle such complexity. That is the challenge of our time.

Anyone still convinced that the organizational structures and leadership models of the twentieth century will magically work in today's exponentially more complex world will quickly encounter inconvenient truths.

Part of the issue we all face comes down to the speed and scale of information flow.

Some organizations that once functioned well are finding themselves where the Task Force found itself in 2003—possessing all of the talent and resources they need but unable to break out of silos and responding quickly to a shifting environment.

The ralities of competing in the twenty-first century are unavoidable, for the outside world has changed drastically: it is flatter, faster, more interconnected than ever before.

One Mission

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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