Senior Leadership Teams

Senior Leadership Teams

The findings of a study of 120 leadership teams around the world, regarding the efficiency of their teamwork.

Author(s): Ruth Wageman, James A. Burruss, J. Richard Hackman, Debra A. Nunes

Publisher: Harvard Business School Press

Date of publication: 2008

Manageris opinion

How can you build a high-performance leadership team? To answer this question, a team of researchers from Hay Group and Harvard University conducted a study of 120 leadership teams at different types of organizations around the world. They found that less than one-quarter of leadership teams effectively operate in a truly collaborative manner. There is a very good reason for this