Building leadership teams is most successful as a team sport, as private equity firm Genstar Capital has found in its 20+ years of business. High-performance leadership teams don’t necessarily materialize after highly talented executives are recruited, and they don’t necessarily evolve as team members get to know one another. Instead, a great top team is designed, recruited, fine-tuned and upgraded. The person with the time, training, focus and responsibility to partner with the CEO on this critical endeavor is the chief human resources leader on the executive team.
