Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization

The answer comes in the form of management by objectives. Top management formulates an overall direction and cascades down objectives and milestones to reach the desired outcome. To a certain degree, the leadership doesn’t care how the objectives will be met, as long as they are met.

The first step in breaking organizational culture inertia is simplification. This helps to eliminate the complex routines, processes, and hidden bargains among units that mask waste and inefficiency.

In effect, Gene and Steve started by thinking that their job was to get the movers and painters to fit into and support the system. By the end, they were trying to figure out, with the help of the movers and painters, how to get the system to be as centered around the movers and painters as possible as well as be supportive of their efforts. Such a

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Process is how we force alignment when it doesn’t happen naturally. You schedule meetings, you embed systems for tracking and accountability, and you install more managers. But if not implemented properly, process slows down progress. It can be painful, especially as teams that grew up eschewing mandates mature. Nobody likes more obstacles to doing