9 Questions to ask of your organisation on a regular basis...

If we started from scratch today…

…would we be doing what we are doing now? …would we have the same people as we do now? …are we happy with how we go about doing what we do?

These are all good questions to ask ourselves frequently. And there’s no better time to do so than at the start of a new year.

When we ask our clients these questions, we often experience inflection points in their strategy, people, and performance.

The greatest cost we pay is often the opportunity cost of something more important. This is where strategic abandonment becomes a vital consideration. What should we stop doing or do less of? What should we start doing or do more of?

Do we have people on the team that we would not hire again? If so, why are they still on the team? Would the team be better without them?

Most importantly, how are we getting things done? Are we placing achieving outcomes over our ’true north’? How would we like to be remembered?

Following are nine questions that may start conversations, reflecti…