Chapter 7
Putting It All Together
Our journey has taken us through five stages of building an effective organization. Each stage contained 10 elements. Exploring these 50 elements, we’ve covered many, many topics; it all may seem a bit overwhelming. Now, it’s time to step back from the trees and consider the forest—when you do, understanding the intertwined elements of organizational success should become quite clear—almost simple. As the American physician, author, and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. is attributed to having said, “I would not ...
