The Levin Group

Over the past twenty-five years, the Levin Group has coached a lot of people across a wide range of industries. When we began, we tended to work with existing or promising executives, or those who were in trouble. Now we work with experienced executives and emerging leaders. One of the things we have continually learned is…

Part of understanding the collective self-knowledge of a team is to understand its default setting—what it is likely to do when under stress or when operating on automatic pilot. When under pressure, teams that have a history of operational focus go directly to the numbers, root-cause discussions, and Excel spreadsheet examinations. Health-care teams almost immediately…

Our book Top Teaming is about how to raise the bar of already good teams into what we have described as Top Teams—teams that succeed and thrive even as the world around them becomes more complex. While it would seem logical that great teams be comprised of great leaders, this is not always the case.…

Matrixed organizations are designed to maximize flow of products or services by minimizing the numbers of redundant functions within divisions and by increasing collaboration between operational and functional areas.  In larger companies, they hold the promise of connecting and coordinating key intellectual and strategic thinking within and across divisions.  Yet many matrix organizations are seen…