In my role of executive coaching I get to work with a lot of leadership teams. In my experience about 20% of the teams I see are excellent. The other 80% are average at best and many on the other extreme of being consistently marginal. I will acknowledge that some of the team members I have observed need to be terminated but the consistent factor in the top 20% is the team leader. This Forbes post is spot on:
“As a retired Navy SEAL and founder of six multimillion-dollar businesses, I view the current business landscape like a “VUCA” war zone in Syria and Afghanistan — it’s Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous — but fortunately for you, there are no incoming enemy rounds!”