The rising stars on your team may not be clamoring for your attention, but if you help them to dream bigger and become more capable leaders, you’ll be amazed at how much more your team can do as a whole.

• Reduce by 80% the time it takes the top team to manage the business (operational activities)

• Refocus the senior team on market-facing activities

• Realign everyone else (onto the same page) to drive execution and results.

Whatever challenges exist within the organization can be traced to the cohesion of the

executive team and its capabilities in prediction, delegation, and repetition.

Nothing is tougher and more time-consuming than having to replace people who haven’t kept up with the growth of the business.

Because of these needed transitions, it’s often best to have some of the original functional leaders head business units — maybe head up expansion to a new country or lead the launch of a product line — so they can maintain direct operational control.