Is Your Leadership Team too Tactical?

Getting the balance right between hitting short-term targets and longer term, strategic thinking is a difficult balancing act for any top team. In this article Robert Leeming spoke to some senior leaders to find out how it can be done.

Key points include:

• A CEO should hold regular full-day sessions with the executive team devoted entirely to discussing future strategy and plans for the business. 
• If the business can afford to have a strategic director, or a specialised team that is forward-looking and engages executives in discussions about [the future], then this  will be of great help to any over-stretched CEO.
• A CEO has to deal with a certain degree of ambiguity. They should never stop sweeping the horizon for what  might be coming to disrupt the business.
• It is important for the CEO to be a catalyst. They should walk into a senior team meeting and be open to new ideas, or approaches to win.