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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium At the Top, It's All about Teamwork     Effective leadership teams outperform even the most effective individual leaders. Every time. In almost every context. A Bain study of 1,250 companies found a correlation between business performance leaders—companies that beat their competition in revenue growth, profitability, and total shareholder return—and highly effective top teams. What do these high-performing top teams have in common? Not the things companies have traditionally focused on like cultivating highly talented individuals with deep expertise and all the right experiences. It’s not even the individual leader’s ability to lead others. What makes the biggest difference is a top team’s ability to act—to behave—as a collective. An organization is only as successful as the team leading it. Backed by behavioral science, our Top Team Journey solution helps executive teams diagnose and develop their effectiveness and improve their ability to meet strategic goals. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The Making of a Corporate Athlete    If there is one quality that executives seek for themselves and their employees, it is sustained high performance in the face of ever-increasing pressure and rapid change. But the source of such performance is as elusive as the fountain of youth. Management theorists have long sought to identify precisely what makes some people flourish under pressure and others fold. We maintain that they have come up with only partial answers: rich material rewards, the right culture, management by objectives. The problem with most approaches, we believe, is that they deal with people only from the neck up, connecting high performance primarily with cognitive capacity. In recent years there has been a growing focus on the relationship between emotional intelligence and high performance. A few theorists have addressed the spiritual dimension—how deeper values and a sense of purpose influence performance. Almost no one has paid any attention to the role played by physical capacities. A successful approach to sustained high performance, we have found, must pull together all of these elements and consider the person as a whole. Thus, our integrated theory of performance management addresses the body, the emotions, the mind, and the spirit. We call this hierarchy the performance pyramid. Each of its levels profoundly influences the others, and failure to address any one of them compromises performance. Peak performance in business has often been presented as a matter of sheer brainpower, but we view performance as a pyramid. Physical well-being is its foundation. Above that rests emotional health, then mental acuity, and at the top, a sense of purpose. The Ideal Performance State—peak performance under pressure—is achieved when all levels are working together. Continued here

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