Five Reasons Why Your Organization Fails (Or Will Fail) to Reach its Stated Goal
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We interviewed CEOs, chairmen of companies, leaders in different fields, academicians, etc. We interviewed over 70 CEOs from different countries and companies, large and small.
We asked these leaders why their organizations behaved the way they did. We asked about their successes, their failures and their cultures. Interestingly, the interviews opened our eyes to the fact that the majority of the organizations around us are failing to reach their goals.
On the basis of our conclusions, we worked on these with our clients, confirmed our conclusions, dropped those ideas the merit of which was not proved in practice, and finally, began to write a concise report on the findings.
The following findings are not mere reasons. They are root causes for failures. The entire research and thereafter this text has been written to help organizations identify root causes for their lack of expected successes.
I have intentionally kept this very brief and to the point to quickly get the message across to you and then get you to do the most important thing – act.
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Table of Contents
- You Have the wrong map. Worse, you Believe it is the right One (-1)
- Yours is not a value-driven company (-13)
- Organizations create individual accountability and not team accountability (-21)
- Leaders lead by exercising formal authority, not moral authority (-31)
- The role of the CEO is ill defined (- 55)
- Entrepreneurial thinking – the universal misnomer (-75)
- Compromise is not a solution (- 85)
Some Quotes From The Book
- Before you attempt to change behaviors and attitudes, what needs to be changed is the map.
- Most organizations rely on a single vehicle, that is, a single USP, to succeed. This is mindless.
- The success of the organization is not reflected in how much it will grow tomorrow. It is reflected in whether or not it will exist in the next generation and the next.
- "A group of donkeys led by a lion can defeat a group of lions led by a donkey."
- The leader’s role is to create leaders. Period.
- The moment a leader adopts a culture marked by overcritical and frenetic reviews of performance, talking only about what went wrong, she kills the emotional connect.
- The problems faced by organizations are itself a result of the CEO not doing what she is supposed to, which, simply put, is to create an organization and culture which deliver a different outcome.
- Compromise is not a solution. It is a compromise.
