Building the Fit Organization: Six Core Principles for Making Your Company Stronger, Faster, and More Competitive

APPENDIX 1Organizational Fitness Self-Assessment

As you know, I didn’t give you any specific tools in this book. I’m also not providing a self-assessment that gives you some sort of arbitrary score. I’m not sure that there’s any value to finding out that you scored a 58, or a 73, or an 88—are those scores good or bad? And what should you do next?

Instead, I’ve constructed a self-assessment that will force you to think and reflect on how you and your organization currently operate with respect to the six principles I’ve identified. If your organization is large, you may need help in answering some of the questions. That’s fine. Think of this as a learning tool that will identify areas of strength and weakness and help you to focus your fitness ...