by Joe Espana | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog, Leadership, Teams
I’ve been thinking about what actually enables a senior team to perform at a higher level. It’s a question most team leaders find themselves pondering at some point, usually after reflecting that there’s more in the team tank that that is not being tapped...
by Joe Espana | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog, Leadership, Teams
Can we talk for a moment about an uncomfortable truth? The behaviours that made you successful earlier in your career are often the very behaviours that prevent you from succeeding at the next level. To succeed in a senior team, you have to replace habits that...
by Joe Espana | Jul 1, 2026 | Blog, Teams
Give a senior team three or four successful years together and it develops a kind of fluency. People know who knows what. Decisions get made faster because less has to be spelled out each time. Trust is high, and it has been earned the hard way. Fluency in the team is...
by Joe Espana | Oct 17, 2025 | Blog, Teams
I’m going to guess that if you were to ask any senior team whether they collaborate well, most will say “of course we do.” I’m not so sure. Both attitude and relationship dimensions impact on successful cross-functional or cross-boundary collaboration. I appreciate...
by Joe Espana | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog, Leadership, Teams
Take a computing giant like Apple. Typically they will release a major operating system up date for their phones annually. Usually these major updates come with new features, but if you are an iPhone user, you will have noticed that Apple also releases incremental...
by Joe Espana | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Teams
Have you ever stopped to think that you may be, unintentionally, creating silos in your team? It’s natural to think, “of course I’m not creating silos”. But the honest truth is that we sometimes do this unwittingly and...
