Buckle up
You can plan.
You can investigate and think about and read books and talk to the experts. You can do your due diligence. You can make…
Anytime you’re planning on raising the level of accountability, it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that you’ll struggle.
Why? The level of accountability you have today is determined by the systems, processes and management you have in place today. Crank things up a gear means cranking up the systems, the processes and the management too. And that’s hard.
Why? Resistance.
The nice idea – the strategic idea – meets the operational reality. Our systems are designed to do what they do. We can’t do what we now want to do because we can’t already do what we want to do.
Just like all change – increasing accountability means taking on existing systems and processes and management. Which are all designed to produce consistent (existing) results.
They’re designed to resist variation.
To resist change.
If change is what you’re looking for, buckle up.
Skippy strategy: Enabling change means pushing back those who push back.
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