How Disconnected Are You?

In too many organizations, leadership is completely disconnected from the workforce.

Why is that? Do the math: in each relationship, you know, at best, 50% of what the other person thinks or does. In professional relationships, this is sometimes much lower. It becomes worse if you look at a second-level relationship: 50% of 50% equals 25%. The third level? 12.5%. 

Does this matter? Not too much, as long as conditions are stable and you have well-defined processes and clear hierarchies. The issue arises if the conditions are different: your company grows or undergoes a change; you want to implement a new strategy or your are facing strong competition; and so on. Those conditions require a strong connection between the leaders and the employees.

This is why most strategy implementations fail.

Most strategy implementations, growth plans, and change projects fail as a result of disconnection. The CEO might have a vision, but others do not fully buy into it. The strategy execution does not work. People are often driven by different motivators than leaders think they are. There are numerous examples of this.

If you want to be successful, then connect. How do you do this? Read more about how to establish connection in one of our next blog posts. 

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