Total Alignment

There are roadblocks to progress built into the current way many corporations operate. From retail to manufacturing to even the publishing industry, it seems that old patterns continue to exist. When these are combined with ineffective strategies and poor leadership, they cause many corporations to 'limp along', get into insurmountable debt and/or fail to perform as profitably as they could, and never reach the potential for which they were created. These patterns must change -- and can change - with new learning and leadership. Despite the plethora of information and many books on the market, there are several key issues in the business world that business leaders have still been unable to solve. This book has solved them for other leaders in countries outside the USA proven by the fact the book has sold +40,000 units to date in the Spanish edition. These issues have a huge impact on productivity, profitability and innovation. These include: The existence of organizational silos Organizational silos -- a business term used to refer to departments working as separate units and not sharing information with other departments in the same company -- have existed for over 30 years. The lack of communication may be intentional or unintentional. Silos are "seen as growing pains for most organizations of all sizes." Forbes [2013]. Moreover, silos exist both horizontally and vertically as "individual units have high barriers between them or senior leadership can be completely isolated from lower management levels." Forbes [2011]. By 2014 [Harvard Business Review] many had given up breaking the silos and proposed working across them. Poor execution of strategy Nine out of ten businesses fail to implement their strategic plan -- 60% build a strategy that doesn't fit the budget, 75% fail to link incentives to strategy and 95% of employees fail to understand the organization's strategy [Fortune magazine]. Failed strategies put companies at risk and damage their competitive position. The root cause of failed strategies is poor execution. Wasting time in meetings Meetings are major time wasters for executives worldwide. The way most companies organize and carry out their meetings results in huge amounts of time being wasted by unfocused and undisciplined events. "Meetings are one of those necessary evils of business; important for exchanging thoughts and ideas,...