ORGANIZATION CLARITY: UNLOCKING YOUR GOALS WITH A SIMPLE TOOL

I have the distinct privilege of being a clarity evangelist.  I help others with their personal and organizational clarity.  My clarity mentor Will Mancini puts it this way, "Clarity isn't everything, but it changes everything."  This is my go-to quote when it comes to clarity.  Take a moment and reflect on it.  Imagine for a moment on having clarity around what we call the Five Questions of Irreducible Leadership.  Which are:

•    What are we doing?
•    Why are we doing it?
•    How are we doing it?
•    When are we successful?
•    Where are we going?
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Now apply this to your life or your organization.  Imagine how answering these five questions could potentially speed up every decision and action related to your life or organization.  You get the idea.

Last week I spent time with our Auxano Team in our annual meeting designed to resync our team and our lives.   Once again, the impact will be lasting if not life-changing.  One statement stood out to me more than the others.  I believe it originated with Scott Adams and is  "Goals are for losers, systems are for winners."  While I'm not too fond of the tone of this statement, the implications of it are significant.  In other words, it's one thing to have a goal, but it's another to have a system for achieving that goal.

Now imagine what would happen if you had a tool that combined the elements of clarity around your goals with a system for accomplishing your goals.  That's precisely what we have in our master tool Horizon Storyline unpacked in Will Mancini's God Dreams book.

This tool takes into account that we both see and plan along different horizons.  In this case, what we call Beyond the Horizon (5-20 years), Background Horizon (3 years), Midground Horizon (1 year), and Foreground Horizon (90 days).   This system we affectionately call the 1-4-1-4.  Imagine for a moment ten simple goals along four horizons to a better future.  Not merely ten goals, but a system for implementing those goals.