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