#203 | Why an All-Star Team Might Be Your Biggest Risk

▶︎ #203 | Why an All-Star Team Might Be Your Biggest Risk In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska answers a question she’s been asked, years apart, by two different leaders: should I build a team of only A-players? She takes the appeal seriously, then walks through why a team stacked entirely with stars is often more fragile than it looks, not less, especially once real pressure hits. Using PCM, she shows how a team built from one dominant personality base - all push, all speed, all confidence - predictably struggles with the things that base isn’t built for: finishing, pausing, maintaining. Then she names the Wheel of Conflict hiding underneath "only hire stars": it’s rarely about competence; it’s a conflict of values between believing individual brilliance wins versus believing complementary contribution wins, one that most organizations have never actually debated out loud. If your team looks incredible on paper but keeps stalling in practice, this episode gives you a concrete way to map what’s actually missing, and to hire for the gap instead of for another version of what you already have. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/