Why Leadership Teams Lose Speed – And How to Recover It

I've analyzed dozens of leadership teams in Romanian companies with 20-200 employees. There's a surprisingly consistent pattern: individually high-performing teams frequently produce mediocre collective results.

The 5 Main Causes of Speed Loss

1. Unresolved authority conflicts
2. Information asymmetry between members
3. Alignment meetings that don't align
4. False consensus culture
5. Lack of a collective decision protocol

The speed of a leadership team is not determined by the speed of the fastest person in it – but by the speed at which structural conflicts that slow it down get resolved.<<

How to Recover Speed

• Clarify decision authority (Week 1-2)
• Institute productive disagreement (Month 1)
• Eliminate alignment meetings (Month 1-2)

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