Leadership: Implementing Your Strategy
A leader's job is about much more than setting the strategy. It is about being very clear on the direction the company is heading, and then setting up the processes and people policies to motivate and help people take the company in that direction.
Defining the strategy is relatively fast and "logical". Most companies have executive teams that can do this well. Often, the same applies to the processes which support the strategy.
Yet when it comes to the people, the problems start as "people follow their own logic".
The keys to good leadership lie in communicating and getting buy-in to the strategy, and in making sure that the decisions and actions people take are in alignment with the strategic direction of the organization.
By measuring the alignment of people, companies gain insights into how the strategy is perceived by different parts of the organization, where the 'strong' areas of alignment are, and where the gaps are, so they can take appropriate, targeted action.
