… internal organizational issues tend to remain the same.
Consider this list of work challenges from 20 years ago that I found when cleaning out some files:
- Slowness in responding to market and world changes + internal change resistance
- Slow execution
- Lack of focus and traction on strategic issues, including confusing strategic plans with strategy
- Poor (or no) performance management, leadership development, and succession planning
- Team (lack of) performance
- Process inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, especially for product and software development
- Inability to attract and keep talent
- Conflicting priorities or worse, no real priorities
- Multitasking to distraction and lack of results
- Need for innovation
- Too many meetings
- Burnout and overload
There were more, but you get the idea.
How many of these look familiar? For example, how many times have you heard “how can we go faster”? Or had your calendar loaded with so many ineffective meetings that you couldn’t get any work done?
Don’t treat symptoms … look for root causes and make real, sustainable changes this year – don’t wait another year!
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