Does your c-suite really operate as a team? Most senior executives focus on their functional group, not on their peers.
- Harvard Business Review
- 103(6), Nov-Dec, 2025: p.21-29
The best guitarist, drummer, keyboard player, and singer don’t necessarily make the best band. That’s because individual skills don’t ensure stellar group performance. New research suggests the same holds true for top executive teams. Companies are hiring the best functional experts to be their chief marketing officer, chief financial officer, and so on, but when these senior executives come together, they don’t necessarily gel as a unit. They don’t identify primarily as members of the C-suite team, their goals are often misaligned, and they aren’t always evaluated on collective results. That needs to change.-Reproduced
https://hbr.org/2025/11/does-your-c-suite-really-operate-as-a-team