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Leadership Meetings Wait for the Founder
You may recognize this when
- The leadership team can discuss issues intelligently and still fail to close ordinary cross-functional decisions.
- Leaders debate the tradeoff and then look to the founder for the final interpretation.
- The founder remains the enterprise integration mechanism.
- Clarify decision ownership, authority and interfaces so the team can resolve normal interdependence at its own level.
What it looks like
The leadership team can discuss issues intelligently and still fail to close ordinary cross-functional decisions. Leaders debate the tradeoff and then look to the founder for the final interpretation. The founder remains the enterprise integration mechanism. Clarify decision ownership, authority and interfaces so the team can resolve normal interdependence at its own level.
A question to test it
What recent example from your own company would confirm or rule this out?
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