The Leadership Lesson Every Executive Needs

Wide receiver. What's the most important team for the wide receiver? Offensive team. Right. How about the most important team is the Dallas Cowboys? Bingo. So if you're now the head of marketing and I say, what's your most important team? What does the head of marketing say? Normally they say marketing. Head of finance. Finance. My. No, the company you're running. So when I was the CEO at 1-800-got junk, my most important team wasn't operations or the call center or PR or sales. And I really like my most important team was the leadership team at 1-800-grout junk. That was my first team and we called it our first team. To the outside world, we called it our leadership team. But the seven members on the leadership team, we called it our first team. Our second team was the functional area that we ran. So the head of finance knew that his first team was the leadership team.