If Your Business Needs Heroes, Your Systems Are Broken There is someone in your organization everyone calls when things go sideways. A shipment is stuck, a major customer is unhappy, a deadline is slipping, a system won’t cooperate, or an approval is trapped somewhere and nobody seems to know how…
When everything becomes a priority, strategy stops functioning as a filter. The result is an organization working hard, reacting quickly and potentially moving in the wrong direction. Here is how leaders can make priorities real through trade-offs, resource decisions and a simple Start, Continue, Stop and Defer framework.
Strategic alignment isn't proven when employees can repeat the strategy. It's proven when they can use it to prioritize, make trade-offs and make good decisions without senior leadership in the room. The Five-Person Test can show you whether that's actually happening.