It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.