How to Design a Winning Company
The eight components of your organisational genome hold the secret to unleashing superior performance.
The inconclusive organization
Organizations with strong execution “DNA” tend to share similar characteristics. By fostering these traits, you can improve your organizational performance. Here are a few key improvement areas customized for you:
- Quickly translating key strategic and operational decisions into action
- Relaying competitive information quickly and effectively to headquarters
- Making good on commitments to others
- Maintaining disciplined efforts where you can win
- Ensuring consistent messages from top leaders
- Successfully adapting to market changes
- Creating clarity around roles and responsibilities
- Correlating career advancement and compensation with performance
- Promoting a distinctive culture that creates a competitive advantage
- Encouraging leaders to "walk the talk"
- Sending consistent messages to the market
- Giving employees metrics to evaluate business impact
- Having the right number of organization layers
- Giving field employees insight into the bottom-line impact of daily choices
- Consistently rewarding innovation
- Pursuing and rewarding collaboration across organizational lines
- Prioritizing capabilities when evaluating opportunities
- Maintaining good information flow across the organization
- Acting decisively
- Limiting overlapping roles
- Establishing influence based on reputation, credibility and relationships
- Motivating people with values and pride
The inconclusive organization
Your responses do not place your organization squarely into any of the seven most common profile types we have identified. Instead, your organization is likely a hybrid of two or more of the other profile types. To learn more about them, you can visit the other profile types in the following detail.
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