Ferrari Road Trip
Is your team ready, willing, and able? Choose the right vehicle for the trip.
Is your team ready, willing, and able?
Is your organization creating conditions for your team to succeed?
Many leaders don't realize that organization design is a set of choices about what kind of vehicle you need to accomplish your mission. Riding around in the wrong car can make the trip unbearable and prevent even the best people from making an impact.
To align and elevate performance of your team, today's companies need a purpose-built organization that has "organization-market fit" the same way your customer offer has product-market fit. A super-premium sports car is only well-designed if it's operating in the right context.
Define Your Performance Context
In fast-growing or transforming companies previous builds met previous needs. That early-stage idea of having everybody in the room for important decisions starts to break down when you hit dozens of people working across multiple layers and functions. In later-stage companies organizational work arounds or add-ons to previous structures proliferate and suddenly complexity and confusion reign. Adding new products and markets demand adjustments across all functions requiring more meetings, reports, and coordination. Extra layers and controls create drag and latency that hamper performance and muddle clarity.
Start From Scratch
It's natural to double-down on better execution and become more rigorous in planning and prioritization, but no plan survives the first contact with reality. Sometimes is best to step back and get fresh perspective on the whole system. We live in a world where change is constant and permanent. It's unlikely that any open system like a company will endure for many years. When done quickly and skillfully a restructure or re-organization can pay for itself within months with efficiency and effectiveness gains.
While daunting to imagine, building an organization from scratch is a repeatable process with a fixed number of variables. The Winning Organization design template gives you a head start on defining what parts to consider and how much of each you want to affect. Considered as a whole you're more likely to get a useful outcome than if you approach each independently. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
