Slowing Down to Speed Up
We once worked with a company that manufactured specialty vehicles who was close to going bankrupt. When we went in to assess the situation, we discovered that more than half the vehicles
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Accountability, A Double-Edged Sword
When you align the plans of your business so that they are properly translated, you have now given your frontline leaders better tools and expectations to manage against. CEOs that I speak
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Creating Alignment: Where to Start
You can’t align your business if the people in your organization don’t know where you’re going and how to get there.
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Making your business more profitable through culture
It is now widely held that a great organizational culture is the key to making any business, sustainably profitable. The key to creating a great culture, is through alignment.
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Didn’t we already do this?
In the last Opportunity, we discussed the need to look at processes as a whole before descending into the activities of individuals within the process. One of the benefits of analyzing organizations
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The mistake of studying people and not processes
One of the obvious places to look for opportunities to improve is to study a process within the organization and see if you can make it better (simpler, faster, or less expensive
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How does this impact me?
The third piece of the organizational alignment puzzle is how the reward system supports it or not. Rewards, whether compensation or recognition, have a powerful influence on people’s behaviors and can upend
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Are there any questions?
Due to the fact that we travel to our clients, it’s difficult to get many of our staff together in one place at one time. Twice a year we make an effort
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Is everyone on the same page?
In the last Opportunity we talked about the need for organizational alignment and that there were three sub-components. In this article we will focus on the first component, clarity of direction (organizational Read More
How to straighten out alignment
Over the years we have become increasingly fond of the term “alignment” even though it sounds a little like one of those typical buzz words. It’s a very good concise word for
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