Many companies believe they have a management team, because they have a table, a schedule and a weekly meeting.
But a committee is not a team, it's just important people sitting together.
I've seen organizations full of talent up and completely blocked down.
The reason is almost never the strategy, it's the dynamics of power at the top.
When each leader defends his area as a feud, when meetings serve to justify the past and not to build the future, the company enters into an automatic pilot.
A real management team is not measured by how many meetings it has,
but by how many difficult decisions it makes together.
The strategy is not delegated
It's discussed, it's fought, it's adjusted and it's held up among all of us.
And here comes the truth that few dare say: not all leaders want to lead teams.
Many just want to control and at that time, collaboration dies and internal politics takes over.
That day I understood something simple and brutal: a company does not fail because of a lack of talent above, it fails when its leadership does not know and does not want to play as a team.
