Carol Sanford

The Self-Aligning Business

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The Self-Aligning Business: Unified Strategic Business Change


(Executive summary published in Executive Excellence, Stephen Covey's Newsletter)

There are three interdependent drivers that are core to all successful change and alignment efforts. All three drivers must be held together within the context of a Developmental orientation in order to ensure sustained success. While this Developmental orientation will be explored in coming articles, we can review the key drivers herein. Those three drivers are: a unifying philosophy, a clear business theory, and a systemic technology. Aligning with and integrating these key drivers yields:

  • consistently growing earnings, (without quarterly wobbles)
  • retention of loyal and creative employees who think of the company as their own
  • customers that depend on you for their competitive advantage

Many well-meaning CEOs attempt to encourage top down led programs that appear to be more "whole", such as Six Sigma. Rarely, however, are these programmatic approaches as encompassing as need be in order to create the unifying thrust required to enjoy the desired outcomes expressed in bullet points above.

Fragmented and element use and installation of techniques, models and programs can have significantly adverse effects on your organization.
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