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Contents

Contents

Introduction: Who's in the Room?

PART ONE: FROM PROBLEM TO PORTFOLIO

1 Most Companies Are Run by Teams with No Names

The Myth of the Top Team

Illusion and Reality

The Problem That Isn't There, But Won't Go Away

2 Team Building Won't Solve the Problem

When the Shrinks Go Marching In

After the Shrinks Have Gone

3 Don't Blame the Boss

In Search of the Ideal Leader

Inside the Box

Do the “Rights” Thing

4 Four Fundamental Conflicts at the Heart of Senior Management Teams

Mission Control Versus Knights of the Round Table: Functional Specialists or Reflections of the CEO?

The Team Versus the Legislature: The Representative from Finance, the Senator from Operations

The House Versus the Senate: Are Some More Equal Than Others?

The Majority Versus the Majority: The Impossibility of Deciding


  

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