GIP#007 Creating a Self-Directed, Self-Managing Organization

If you could look down on most businesses you would witness crab like movement. Never moving consistently in one direction. Instead each leg has a mind of its own with the result the company never harnesses its resources to achieve objectives.

Main Topics:

• Self-Directed and Self-Managed organizations require a real-time measurement system.
• Think like an Executive, not an Owner. The job is not to do the work of others, rather holding your direct reports (managers) accountable for earning their checks.
• Supervisors are to manage the people doing the work by established processes and measured on efficiency.
• Managers are to manage supervisors by how well they enforced or improved processes and measured on results.
• The Owner’s job was to pay attention to the near future by looking for threats and opportunities to prosper regardless of uncontrollable events.
• The Owner created a culture of performance, results, and teamwork. The highest honor in the company was to become the Friday Quarterback to Calibration and Alignment Meetings.