This week’s NIV Leadership Bible focus is on healthy alliances. In my October 2 blog post (during the Federal Government shutdown), I spoke about building coalitions and “commons creating”. For more about those, click here.
For a leader, healthy alliances are important for a variety of different circumstances…but it starts with your leadership team. In their 2010 book Connecting Top Managers, Jim Taylor and Lisa Haneberg note that how leaders work together is as important as how well they lead their individual departments.
Taylor and Haneberg believe in the “5/95 Rule”, where 5% of your time—approximately 100 hours per year you spend together with your leadership team—impacts 95% of the success of several organizational systems. If you can optimize that 5%, you will see positive returns in organization culture, employee engagement and retention, productivity and results, and organizational agility.
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