Organization leaders need to operate organization first

Organization leaders need to put the organization before their own team. This means they need to prioritize understanding the disciplines of the other leaders and prioritize relationships with them. This is called First Team Concept ^[1].

This means a leader should not focus only on advocating for their team, they need to consider the wider organization first before their team.

An organizational leader should feel they have the authority to handle things across the organization, no matter who is involved. There are no silos at this level.

Julie Zhou during a presentation at CPO Mastery conference said:

• You own it, even if you are not asked to own it.
• At a certain level at a company, you simply CANNOT make excuses
• At a certain point in your career, it stops mattering the situation you find yourself in. It doesn't matter if the door is locked or not. If there is a problem you will figure out how to solve it, whatever it takes