Question

vision without power is a Ferrari without wheels.

Answer 1

A car with poorly aligned wheels is dangerous to drive on the freeway. Wouldn’t you take a moment to have the alignment adjusted before setting out on a long trip?

In business, if your operations strategy and business vision aren’t aligned, the expressway to profit quickly becomes a bumpy, stressful road. As I work on my next book, I’ve been interviewing CEOs, COOs and CFOs of middle market companies about how they align their strategy with the vision. We’ve been discussing how taking a holistic view helps strike a balance between strategy (the why) and tactics (the how), and getting that balance right is essential for success.

Many middle market company leaders focus too heavily on either their operations strategy or their business vision, forgetting that connecting the two can generate extra horsepower for success. The holistic view provides balance between your corporate vision and operations strategy and enables you to accelerate to high business value. This does not need to be a laborious process. Strategy development should be quick. In fact, I’ve developed a process that can be executed in as little as one day, that can develop an aligned, holistic strategy to achieve your vision.