A short check for leaders

Where is your organizationworking around itself?

When there is a gap in clarity, capacity, systems or ownership, people find a way to keep the work moving. Over time those workarounds become the operating model, and the organization pays twice: once for the system, and again to get around it.

The question is not whether workarounds exist. It is what they cost, and who is paying.

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What’s happening in your organization?

Takes two minutes. There is no score.

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Then answer these three

These matter more than the count.

  1. 1

    Where are your workarounds clustering?

  2. 2

    Who is absorbing them?

  3. 3

    What would stop working tomorrow if those people stopped compensating?

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