In the face of today's BANI (brittle, anxious, non-linear, incomprehensible) world, the need for "teamship infused leadership" is more important than ever. It requires leadership courage and self awareness to uncover blind spots and break out of limiting autopilot patterns. Yet, paradoxically, the most effective way for leaders and senior management to transform their organizations is to unlock the organization's synergy of teamship AND leadership - and harness that power to become higher performing, more results focused, increasingly effective, and organizationally and individually growth oriented.
This is not about abandoning organizational structure but evolving it to support continuous learning and innovation, allowing high-performing teams more autonomy in decision-making, and instilling heightened trust and candor up and down the organization. In the process, leaders realize they don't have all the answers and actively challenge the status quo. Change, and maybe even transformation, is possible only when a co-elevating and collaborative mindset it firmly entrenched in the organization.
In the trenches, teamship underpins a bias for schedule and time attentiveness, getting it right (early), taking smart risks and experimenting, fostering curiosity, encouraging candor, keeping it simple and focused, and holding a space where the best in everyone rises to the surface and is celebrated. As James W. Tamm so succinctly coined in his book Radical Collaboration, "Collaboration starts inside you first, then moves out into individual relationships, teams, and organizations." Teamship encompasses the whole - and when it inoculates leadership, a powerful potential emerges.
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