Every executive has two teams. There is the function they lead, and there is the executive team they sit on.

The one they treat as their first team is what your business becomes.

When five leaders run five functions instead of one team, the whole business runs at a fraction of what it could.

In this solo episode, Mickey Anderson breaks down why a growth plateau so often starts at the top, where talented functional leaders quietly optimize for their own department instead of the business.

You will hear the symptoms to watch for, the executive meetings that feel like status updates, the handoffs that break between marketing, sales, and delivery, and the cross-functional work that takes three times longer than it should. She unpacks the psychology of the first team, draws on Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams, Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Jim Collins' Good to Great, and gives you three moves you can start in your very next executive meeting to make the executive team the primary team and get everyone deciding for the business instead of the silo.

If your functions are well run and the business is still stuck at a plateau, this is the work we do. Book a call: https://loyaltyops.com/book

About UNLEASHED: UNLEASHED is the podcast for business owners building companies that last in a decade no one is prepared for. Host Mickey Anderson talks with founders and operators about what they are building, the decisions behind it, and what they are betting on next.

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