How to Make Your Team a Platform for Others
Your team delivers. That’s good. But if you want to operate at Group level — and step up as a Top Talent — you’ll need more than delivery. You’ll need leverage. And that starts with treating your team not just as a productive unit… but as a platform.
From silo to springboard: the shift that makes you scale
You’ve optimized everything. On paper, your company checks all the boxes: it’s modern, agile, and ready for anything. And yet… you can feel it—everything is still just as complicated. All it would take is one crisis, one unexpected event, one supplier failing, and suddenly panic would set in. Your teams scramble, processes turn into obstacles, and the agility you thought you had vanishes like a mirage.
Why? Because you’ve mistaken optimization for robustness, flexibility for instability, and risk management for red tape. You aimed to make your company more efficient… but in reality, you’ve made it more fragile. It’s time to quit racing toward disaster under the illusion that you’re speeding up. Here are five key tools to help you rethink your model—before you’re forced to.
Based on
“Turning your team into a platform“
by Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review 2015).
Blitzcalling,
by Reid Hoffman & Chris Yen (Crown 2018)
Here’s the mindset shift:
- You don’t just solve problems.
- You enable others to solve theirs.
- You don’t just execute.
- You multiply value across silos.
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