Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit

Creating an Ownership Thinking Steering Committee

When working with clients, we generally help them form an Ownership Thinking Steering Committee (OTSC) to ensure that the initiative survives and thrives. There are many definitions of steering committees out there, but I’ll offer one that is an amalgam of a few that I’ve seen:

A steering committee is a group of stakeholders who are responsible for providing guidance on overall strategic direction. They help to spread the strategic input and buy in to a larger portion of the organization. The steering committee is usually made up of organizational peers and is the combination of direct customers and indirect stakeholders.

I typically suggest that the OTSC have no more than five to eight members ...