LEADING a team of LEADERS
Aug 28, 2019
4 minutes
Here is a particularly knotty leadership challenge. How do you lead a team of leaders, of people who are already at the top of their game, and are used to holding senior positions within their own organisations?
This, it seems, is a challenge that faces the chair of any board around the world.
A business board, almost by definition, is comprised of businesspeople who are, or have been, senior leaders within their own sphere.
As Kirsten Patterson, the CEO at the Institute of Directors, notes, in essence any board chair is leading a team of his or her peers.
And, she says, a huge part of the success of a board comes
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