Friday, June 09, 2006

The Power of Alignment

I was at the annual business planning retreat of my company over the last couple of days and someone said at some stage, “In a healthy organization all the people sing from the same song sheet”.

“That’s it,” I thought to myself. The purpose of aligning everything in your company: Vision, Strategy, Leadership Development, Common Issue Resolution Frameworks, Philosophical approaches etc, is that it enables all the people in the company to be on the same page, telling the same story in a way that makes sense to everyone inside as well as outside the business.

Seeing your business as a whole entity, and not just bits and pieces, gets it moving in the right direction. It’s a bit like aligning the wheels on your car to ensure a smooth ride.

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