Organizations often fail because they focus on the wrong things.
When you see any group (leadership team, functional team, sports team, board, entire organization, family, etc.) stuck and
- bickering,
- power struggling, or
- getting lost in the minutiae,
they are likely focused on how something should be done, who does or decides what, and when these things will get done. Though important, focus on these things leads to dysfunction or destruction unless the group first focuses on the right things.
To succeed, any group must first focus then agree on the answers to these three questions:
- What is true?
- What do we want to be true?
- Why?
Then the detailed arguments about how, who, and when can continue because they will make sense in the light of the right context.
To your continued success,
Mike