January 2010 Deep Insights

Walking, running, sprinting, or racing to your new year’s strategy execution will provide many unthought-of challenges that may distract from your original goal. Some organizations will slide back into using day to day fixes and others will hollow out their strategy to meet a lesser goal. A few will keep focus on the strategy’s contribution to their whole. This last group has a DNA structure permeating the minds of its entire population that is expressed in a commitment to using people’s strengths, not focusing on their or its weaknesses.

These organizations have learned that strengths, not weaknesses, within their people drive successful ideas and connect adjacent possibilities never before seen. They do so by mating ideas and possibilities that create mutations which drive new ideas not achievable until their inception. They consistently seek out current ecological modifications that may be disruptive to their strategy and make immediate adjustments. They set the bar for all others to reach by adapting before crisis sets in. They capture their ideas and events in a repository for all to share and digest. These organizations know that mating only occurs when collaboration flourishes in the entire organization. They meet frequently in open forums to discuss alternative activities that will enhance their contribution to the whole. Their commitment is to arrive ahead of schedule with more value than originally thought attainable. They accept the reality of non-linear execution. They expect to enhance their success with daily initiatives that improve their ability to deliver what was heretofore thought unrealistic.

The DNA successful organizations engineer mates peoples strengths forming mutations that drive innovations, creativity, and participation to enhance the whole. Recognition for success is everyone not someone, it is supported with inspiration not supervision, it respects an individual’s right to exist in their space, and it rewards performance of the whole not its parts.