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Clarifying the Strategic Focus

Guest post by: Eric Douglas

Article Overview: Effective leaders who want to generate lasting, sustained success in their organizations need to spend a considerable amount of time and energy clarifying and communicating the strategic focus.

Clarifying the Strategic Focus

Effective leaders who want to generate lasting, sustained success in their organizations need to spend a considerable amount of time and energy clarifying and communicating the strategic focus of the organization. This is the first step in building the levels of trust needed to enable people to act nimbly and quickly in the face of accelerating complexity and change. By engaging in a deep examination of the organization's core values, you will get to the heart of what is essential for your customers and shareholders and employees - and thus essential for success. This is true whether you're a small company or a large one, a non-profit or a public entity. Communicating the core values creates powerful alignment across departments and divisions. This yields clarity of focus and enables people to make better decisions, consistently, across long spans of time.

Aligning people around core values is crucial for building trust. It frees managers from the suffocating constraint of having to second-guess every decision and micromanage every detail. In a values-driven organization, managers can delegate decisions and ask people to think for themselves. When people act on the basis of clearly understood values - linked to performance measures - they are naturally engaged in making the right decisions consistently over time.

Aligning people around core values is the first thing that a leader should do. It is the framework and the vehicle that enables you to start moving at light speed.

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