The three critical perspectives for any organisation...

A key function of leadership is to constantly maintain a comprehensive perspective of the organisation.

This means regularly taking time out from doing to observe.

Getting the balance right is vital. Too little doing or too little observing can lead to failure.

Performance relies greatly on results, but the right results are achieved only if the organisation’s purpose is well aligned.

In order to gain the right insight a leader must seek to understand the organisation, the environment in which it exists and, most importantly, how it engages with this environment.

This three-lens approach forms a critical part of our management framework which we use in our WestMarv practice and one that has proven to be very effective.

The Window - External

We start with observing the external. The market, the ecosystem in which an organisation exists.

As noted in an earlier article: https://westmarv.com/focus-on-the-outside/ paying attention to the external requires not just a focus on the competitors or the…