Weekly Team Leader Tip: Align Your Leaders
Apr 08, 2025 12:31 pm
“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”
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