9. Leading a Team of Leaders

In this chapter, we continue the journey to create highly effective leadership teams by listening to the executives that head up these teams. In every leadership team, there stands one person that encourages, guides and sometimes demands things from the team. How does one balance being a member of the leadership team and at the same time, as the head of this team, challenge and stimulate them to move beyond their comfort zone? How does the leader hold team colleagues accountable when one deviates from agreed norms? How, as the most senior executive, do you decide which of the many initiatives to choose from, that will steer the company successfully into the future? In this chapter, meet C-levels leaders who share their successes, and their challenges to create highly effective leadership teams.