What did you like about the Senior Leadership Teams?
The book Senior Leadership Teams enables the leader to learn the six basic elements that enable an individual become successful senior leader. In addition, the book gives the difference between generic leader and a senior leaderMoreover, this topic is more applicable to leaders who take themselves as more senior than others but are in the same level. It elaborates on the importance of workplace teamwork.
What struck you as interesting?
The most likable thing about this topic is that it gives a description on how senior leadership team should be created and how senior leaders should operate in order to maintain high productivity in an organization. It is worth noting that an organization comprises of senior leaders and junior leaders. Also, leadership teams are split into essentials and enablers. Essential leaders are dedicated to organization’s success while enablers are less concerned about the success of the business.
Why did the Senior Leadership Teams stimulate positive emotion?
This topic stimulates positive emotions in thatm it gives an individual morale to read and a desire of becoming a senior leader in an organization. On the other hand, this topic makes a reader more positive on taking responsibilities in whatever position one is working for with an aim of being promoted into senior leadership category (Wageman, Nunes, Burus, and Hackman, 2008).
What did you not like about the Senior Leadership Teams?
Although the authors made a logical approach towards leadership development, they also ignored some important leadership elements that are crucial for team leaders. The book setting was meant for senior leadership level although some of the details given have less impact on the success of the senior team leaders. To start with, the authors have no comment on how salary level affects the actions of a senior leader. It is clear that if an individual gets poor remuneration, then the work output will also be poor. On the other hand, the book fails to view leaders as individual agents since it never touches on personalities found in different groups in various departments. Personality affects the success of a group and the authors should have pointed out how to deal with individuals leaders take things personal even at workplaces since they greatly affect the productivity of an organization.
Why did the Senior Leadership Teams stimulate negative emotion?
Moreover, the authors stimulate negative emotions about the book since they base the arguments on personal views and not reality while teaching on senior leaders. The book also gives definition of leaders as independent in nature, and this brings about conflict of power as one individual tries to show power over others. Finally, the book touches very little on consumer needs since it only elaborates on logistics of a good senior leadership team but fails to touch on negative point of it. The book fails to give solutions to ways and means in which senior leaders can overcome obstacles using their powers (Wageman, Nunes, Burus, and Hackman, 2008).
What did you learn?
Senior leadership teams are responsible for issues that relate to others in an organization, community, or society. As such, values and goals are of less significance but the most important thing is that senior leaders lead fellow leaders. A senior leader must form a real team, have a compelling direction and select the right people to form a team.
Summarize your major take-away and intellectual sound bites?
The reading enables an individual gain a lot of knowledge on how senior teams operate in an organization and gives upcoming leaders a chance to re-evaluate themselves through learning the qualities of a good senior team leader. On the other hand, the book gives a description of how leadership teams have succeeded in following the key elements to good leadership. In addition, understanding the operations in a company and its clients are of great significance since through this, leaders are able to evaluate themselves from the outcomes generated. The authors give a reader a desire to like team work since the world is very complex thus; people need to combine forces in order to achieve their goals. Leaders develop themselves through life experiences and are not necessarily born with the leadership ability (Wageman, Nunes, Burus, and Hackman, 2008).
Bottom Line: A one sentence "wham-bang thank-you-ma'am" synopsis of what you will take away from the lesson regarding what you learned
It is important noting that the effectiveness of senior leaders is determined by the performance of an organization, and in achieving these pleasing results teamwork is very essential.
Reference
Wageman, R., Nunes, D. A., Burruss, J. A., and Hackman. Richard, J. (2008). Senior Leadership
Teams. Harvard Business School Press
