Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work

3Misaligned Leadership and Unclear Direction

A great mentor of mine, Jeff Bowden, correctly foresaw an interesting niche in consulting: helping organizations translate new strategic directions into meaningful implementation plans. And not just plans, but the actual execution itself. Sometimes the single biggest problem in an organization is faulty leadership alignment. It could be that different leadership teams, on any level, are working at cross-purposes, or it could be that their goals conflict with each other. Sometimes conflicts are over turf and politics, sometimes they are personal, and sometimes each leader or team is doing what he or she thinks is best but without sufficient alignment and shared sense of direction.

Large organizations ...