Two leaders discuss why organizations fail when people don't agree on what winning means. Without shared clarity, teams work in silos and pull in different directions, undermining everything else you try to build.
If I walk into your organization and I ask five people, what does it mean to win? There's a high likelihood I'm gonna get five different answers or I won't get five different answers. I'll get no answer. And nobody knows what it means to win except, well, we got to make money, really. Obviously, we know that one. But if we don't know what it means to win, how does a player know what they're supposed to do? Am I playing offense? Am I playing defense? Am I playing special teams? Everybody's confused. Then we wonder why we have so many challenges within an.
Organization, and everybody thinks they're doing the right thing to win, whatever that means to them. But they're operating in silos, and in some cases, they may be working against each other rather than everyone working together to collaborate to help the organization win as well as the individual team.
