Grasp your leadership role

As leader or CEO, you have one critical function: to see your organization, not as it is, but as it can be; and then to make it happen effectively.  Yet, it is the latter part of this statement that proves to be the most challenging.

A thought that is often expressed is:  Why don’t others get it?  There needs to be a measured approach to help them “get it” in order for them to make it happen.  The way to make it happen is to ensure that everybody:

It is not easy, partly because your people don’t behave according to your strategies and instructions.  They behave according to their perceptions of your strategies and instructions.  This is the primary cause of them appearing not to “get it”.  Success in achieving your what-can-be hinges on managing their perceptions.  And yet, this is where leaders and CEOs most often lose the hearts and minds of the people who must execute: they ignore perceptions.

In order to manage perceptions, the perceptions need to be quantified.  Click on Is your vision in action?, answer the questions and see for yourself the role of perceptions in achieving effectiveness.

Want to know more about perceptions?  Click on Perceptions are Reality to download a pdf file (size: 90kb). This is an extract from the article A New Key Competence: Managing Perceptions for Effective Strategy Execution (size: 730kb).