How to eliminate those characteristics that lead to failure:

When you look at the key failures – failure to keep and motivate good employees (who tend to leave) and failure to develop executives (who tend to get fired) into leaders – it really comes down to two factors:

1) there is a lack of alignment on what is important and where the organization and each department is heading based on this vision

2) there is a lack of commitment by the organization that shows it cares about creating a success in every worker

If you look closely at these issues, you can understand why, without alignment and the culture that encourages success in others, recent studies have revealed the key weaknesses in the workplace today.

What is the number one frustration of employees? They feel they can’t trust management…what it says and what it does. Without a clear understanding of what is important, it is difficult to step up to be accountable or to give assurances of what will or won’t happen.*

What are the three key reasons executives fail? They are (1) lack of clarity in what is expected/ unable to convey the vision (which comes from lacking a clear alignment on what success means to the company); (2) insensitivity to others and (3) inability to work in teams (which both arise from an emphasis on personal agendas and departmental silos instead of a focus on creating a success in others).**


*   source: group studies by Smythe Dorward Lambert
** source: Fortune/Hay Group study, 1999