How do you know if the purpose and vision of your organization is clear? How do you know if you’ve done enough to rightly connect people to the organization’s mission and vision? Each time I think of this I’m reminded of Jim Collins’ analogy of having the right person in the right seat on the…
Ever since I started leading people, I believed that purpose and vision came first and then people. Then, Jim Collins’ book Good to Great made me question my view of this priority. He contends that in great organizations, the CEO picks a great team of people first and then, in essence, figures out the vision.…