Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

113. System Alignment

Concept

Organizations are able to gain more momentum and produce better results when their design decisions are internally consistent. When one system seems to be pointed in one direction and another system is pointed in another vector, the organization wastes energy tugging against itself. It’s as if the organization was being drawn and quartered. When all systems are aligned, that is, pointed in the same direction with the same cultural intentions coming manifest, the organization is likely to have more energy, more focus, more productivity, and better results.

One could argue that competing vectors in system design provide checks and balances that keep an organization from going way off line. Perhaps. So here is another ...