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The future of leadership depends less on traditional structure and more on how organisations create a teaming system to coordinate action.

Most teams I work with do not flounder because they lack strategy, talent or effort. They fail because they are misaligned.

One of the distinguishing attributes of highly effective leadership teams is their capacity to tolerate the tensions in difference.  

The most significant shift I observe in teams that move from floundering to flourishing is this: They stop operating as a collection of executives and align to a shared purpose.

I’m pleased to share the State of Teams 2026 white paper which includes the results of a decade analysing executive teams in action.

When tension rises and conflict feels inevitable, notice what often happens. Someone (or you) suggests: “Let’s agree to disagree.”