TY - BOOK AU - Wageman, Ruth AU - Burruss, James A. AU - Nunes, Debra A. AU - Hackman, J. Richard TI - Senior leadership teams: what it takes to make them great SN - 9781422103364 U1 - 658.4092 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Senior leadership teams KW - Teams in the workplace - Management KW - Group problem solving KW - Executive ability N2 - An organization's fate hinges on its CEO--right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person--no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creating a leadership team. One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team's shared work. Without the CEO's careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organization forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward ER -