‘Building X-Teams' with Deborah Ancona

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In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Professor Deborah Ancona about the importance of X-teams. These are a brand of team that emphasizes external outreach to stakeholders, extensive ties, expandable tiers, and flexible membership. The resulting X-teams are not only are able to adapt in ways that traditional teams are not, but they actually improve an organization’s ability to produce creative ideas and execute them increasing entrepreneurial and innovative capacity.
During the conversation Deborah highlights the shift from traditional team structures to distributed leadership, where leadership is distributed across all levels. She also explores the concept of "family ghosts," which are behaviours and attitudes formed in childhood that influence leadership and stresses the importance of creating a sense of belonging, vision, and innovation in leadership to navigate today's rapidly changing world.

In 2007 Deborah and Henrik Bresman wrote the book ‘X-Teams: How To Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, And Succeed’.
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:03:16)

3. When did you decide that leadership and team performance would be the focus of your life? (00:03:38)

4. What is an X-team? (00:05:31)

5. You have explored why good teams fail and diagnosed a kind of introversion. (00:05:53)

6. What are the capabilities of the X-team that help them to externalise? (00:08:37)

7. Why is it important that a team looks outside of themselves before they look in on team dynamics? (00:10:53)

8. Have you discovered about distributed leadership? (00:12:11)

9. Since you wrote X-teams, a lot has changed in the world. What are you seeing now in terms of creating an X-team? (00:15:36)

10. How does this influence how the C-suite operates? (00:21:06)

11. I wonder how many C-suite teams are doing that? (00:23:44)

12. What are the legacy mindsets that they need to lose? (00:24:33)

13. You’ve written about how our family ghosts effect our leadership. (00:28:06)

14. What’s the ghost that does the most damage? (00:32:47)

15. How do you help people see the risk and downside before they suffer a massive setback because they have this unwieldy ghost? (00:35:20)

16. Are you noticing any difference in the generational progress? (00:41:45)

17. As you look at the world as it currently is, what would you say is really important that we need to be investing in for the future? (00:49:20)

18. What should we be optimistic about? (00:51:54)

19. Tell us about your new book? (00:54:45)

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