Related Articles
Insights
Managing Your Priorities as a Leader: Balancing Expertise with Efficiency
As leaders mature in their roles, the transition from expert to executive is a critical but difficult change to manage effectively. Once in a senior leadership position, executives must shift from tactical thinking to strategic thinking. Improperly balancing senior-level responsibilities with tactical-level problem-solving is a recipe for bottlenecking, slowing the rhythm and speed of execution for teams below. As a leader, recognizing the impact that this balancing act has on your organization is a crucial self-evaluation.
Insights
Life Sciences Roundtable Insights: Sometimes Furiously Frustrating – But Always FAST
Everything in the Life Sciences moves fast, with the imperative to improve and save lives while adhering to rigorous safety standards as the north star for the industry. But with fierce competition and steep regulatory hurdles, the process of taking a new product or therapy to market is daunting for even the best teams. As a part of McChrystal Group’s research into high-performing teams, we sought to understand more about the challenges teams in Life Sciences are facing today, and what’s right around the bend.
Insights
It is Time for the Healthcare Ecosystem to Come Together as a Team of Teams
The healthcare industry has been the source of major developments over the past decades. Such improvements would be impossible without collaboration across a vast healthcare ecosystem. This medley of players is united in its focus on patient welfare but, in practice, tends to work towards this mission in silos – at best missing out on potential synergies, at worst failing to save lives in doing so. Healthcare will always be a team sport. But in addition to having independent high-functioning teams, it will take a functioning Team of Teams – within each healthcare organization and across the industry at large – to win in the future.