Line of Sight...

Just a musing...

Getting clarity is tough enough but keeping it in the hallowed halls of the board room or letting it wallow in a consultants document is either elitist, arrogant or plain dumb. Getting out there and corralling the managers and the workforce is now the real game in town - getting them truly bought in - on the bus.

OK, so knowing this is one thing, doing something quite another. Whilst there may well be nothing wrong with the strategy, the ability to communicate and execute is the true test of success or failure. Getting the message through and understood and then operational is the yardstick by which a strategy should be measured. When strategy and culture are at odds strategy always wins. And an awful lot can get lost in the translation!

To win these days organizations need to get to grips with, visualise and then transform the ‘line of sight’ between how things look and how things are...