The Leadership Book, 2nd Edition

Part three

Your leadership team

Nothing defines a leader more than his or her team and the way it conducts itself. While leaders do of course, set their own agendas, and very often with a distinctive personal ‘edge’, their teams are a wider embodiment of what they aim to do and how they aim to achieve it.

So how as a leader you create a team – what you want it to focus on, what particular mix of skills you want in it, how it operates together as a team and separately as a group of leadership ambassadors – is absolutely critical. This may not be immediately achievable; many of us take on existing teams and it takes us a while both to establish what type of team we want and therefore what changes we want to make to the team we have inherited. ...