The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

Discipline 2: Create Clarity — Members of the leadership team know, agree on, and are passionate about the reason that the organization exists. — The leadership team has clarified and embraced a small, specific set of behavioral values. — Leaders are clear and aligned around a strategy that helps them define success and differentiate from competito

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Of course, their work is not over. It never is. Like a marriage, it requires ongoing attention and effort: maintaining a cohesive team, revisiting the answers to the six questions, overcommunicating and reinforcing them. But leaders in healthy organizations rarely lament having to invest time and energy in that effort. In fact, they almost always c

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Discipline 1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team — The leadership team is small enough (three to ten people) to be effective. — Members of the team trust one another and can be genuinely vulnerable with each other. — Team members regularly engage in productive, unfiltered conflict around important issues. — The team leaves meetings with clear-cut, ac

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