Episode 131: One Neck on the Line

Two heads can help. Two necks on the line just means nobody’s is. Maya and Marcus start with Emma Walmsley’s case against co-chief executives, then hear the research push back — shared leadership can work, as Netflix and Spotify show — and land on the real problem: not the number of leaders, but the fog around ownership. Four steps close it out: name one owner per outcome, draw the lanes before you need them, agree the disagreement rule in advance, and speak as one after the decision. This show is written and produced by Joe Dutkiewicz of Crayon Leadership. Joe equips mid-senior leaders to think and act two levels up, so they’re recognizable to top leaders and ready for the promotion before it opens. Find Joe on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and at the Crayon Leadership website. Maya and Marcus are AI voices, created with text-to-speech.