Weekly Team Leader Tip: Align Your Leaders

Apr 08, 2025 12:31 pm

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“The leader of the future must learn to integrate opposing ideas, translate across disciplines, and design solutions that honor the system as a whole.”

— The Generalist’s Advantage






Want Better Leaders? Make Them Generalists.

Most leadership pipelines reward expertise.

But the problems leaders face today? They aren’t neatly categorized.


A CTO who can’t speak to finance will overspend.

A CFO who doesn’t understand customer experience will cut in the wrong places.

A CMO who ignores operations will make promises the team can’t keep.

We need leaders who see how the parts connect—not just how their part performs.


Here’s how to build that:

• Rotate leaders through unfamiliar roles

• Reward breadth, not just depth

• Promote people who can translate between disciplines


Great leaders don’t just run departments.

They align them.








[This is an excerpt from Joe’s keynote, “The Leadership Advantage: Break the Silo Mindset” – Six Shifts to Think Broader, Collaborate Deeper, and Solve What Others Miss.]







JOE CURCILLO“The Maestro of Integration”

Advisor to Visionaries | Speaker | Author

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