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Resources to help you build a stronger leadership team, eliminate territorial thinking, and create unstoppable strategic alignment.

Aaron Rodgers, Simone Biles, and Organizational Alignment
You know when you feel personally invested in an organization and you shake your head in confusion at apparently avoidable problems? If you are a sports fan, you’ve read about two such situations just this week.
The Six Questions to Rejuvenate your Team
Has your leadership team felt stuck, lost, or bored? Does your organization experience overt or subtle territorial thinking? It’s likely that you need to align around a clear organizational ambition.
The Five Variables for Organizational Teamwork
When you become a leader, it is important that you understand the factors that affect organizational teamwork—the variables that impact how teams work together across the organization. This blog post introduces the five variables that impact organizational teamwork.
Strategic Whiteboard Session: Thematic Goal
Learn how to Leverage Patrick Lencioni's Thematic Goal model to transform your team's work focus and meeting effectiveness.
The Secret to Organizational Teamwork
The need for organizational teamwork—where multiple teams across the organization work together cohesively—is receiving more and more attention. But organizational teamwork is both important and complicated. There is a reason it is so rare. What is the secret ingredient?
“We Have No Idea What Other Teams are Doing” – Building Collective Awareness: Part 3
What are some specific examples of creating collective awareness?
“We Have No Idea What Other Teams are Doing” – Building Collective Awareness: Part 2
What is the goal of building collective awareness? How do we do it?
“We Have No Idea What Other Teams are Doing” – Building Collective Awareness: Part 1
Communication and situational awareness are important across your departments and teams. How can we expect our departments and teams to work together and share information if they don't know what other teams are doing? Naturally, they are going to focus on their own work and their own priorities. Why would they do anything differently?
The Power of a Smaller Team
Here is one tip that can help when you get serious about creating clarity.
Alan Mulally’s Working Principles
Alan Mulally - the former CEO of Boeing and...
A Tool for Giving Feedback
A number of the questions I have received...
Build a Spirit of Information Sharing
Note: if you have not done so already, watch...