When it comes to organisation of all types, there are some problems that seem to persist and persist and persist….
When I first started seriously studying management and leadership in the 1980s, people like Stephen Covey were in vogue. In 1990, he identified chronic problems in organisations. I don’t see much different today.
Take a look at this list, and ask yourself how well your organisation is doing and what you might do in your organisation differently.
- No shared vision and value
- No strategic path
- Poor alignment: bad alignment between structure and shared values, between mission and systems; the structure and systems of the organisation poorly serve and reinforce the strategic paths.
- Wrong style: the management philosophy is either incongruent with shared vision and values or the style inconsistently embodies the vision and values of the mission statement.
- Poor skills, particularly people
- Low trust: staff has low trust, a depleted emotional bank account, and that low trust results in closed communication, little problem – solving or poor cooperation and teamwork.
- No self-integrity: values do not equal habits; there is no correlation between what I value and believe and what I do.
Source: SR COVEY (1990) Principle-Centred Leadership, London: Simon and Schuster. Pp.165-171