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When tension rises in a leadership team, most team members read it as a sign something has gone wrong. A relationship is strained. A meeting has gone off the rails. There’s a problem to be fixed.

Effort is our greatest differentiator. Not talent. Not expertise. Not experience. Effort. Capability is something we have. Effort is something we choose.

I was recently speaking to a group of CEOs and was asked a question every executive team needs to ask: “How do we manage each other’s strengths and weaknesses to get the best out of the leadership team, especially when some leaders do not acknowledge their weaknesses?”

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.