Chapter 8Step Eight: Assessing, Recruiting, and Empowering the Broader Team

You have long since assembled and unified your leadership team. As discussed back in Chapter 2, you must accomplish this early in the breakthrough change process since your vision and plan for change will be far better if you have people with different perspectives, more skills, and a broad range of experiences at the table to challenge your ideas and offer additional ones. Typically, the early team needs to grow over time, both with new members for the leadership team itself and with new colleagues who may be one or more layers removed in the organization.

This chapter builds on the work you did in Step Two. At this point, you might want to revisit and repeat some ...

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