FIT: The Simple Science of Achieving Strategic Goals
Calvin L. Williams
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We look to our leaders to lead us to a better station in life first and foremost. There is an unwritten contract of followership. We trust our leaders to call their shot and make it.”
“Some companies have built up enormous inventories of talent and genius, only to saddle them into mediocrity with weak goals and a lack of ambition at the top. Why not dream bigger?”
“People need to be challenged to reach their potential. They need work that inspires them to do and become better. Jim Rohn, entrepreneur and author said, "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." In other words, the result is only part of the reward.”
“Organizations need systematic approaches to creating alignment and managing achievement. Leaders within organizations own these responsibilities. Alan Branche, the author of a book called Implementation, said, "Strategy execution is the responsibility that makes or breaks executives" We look to our leaders to lead us to a better station in life first and foremost. There is an unwritten contract to followership. We trust our leaders to call their shot and make it.”
“Most companies are notoriously bad at executing strategy. This is mainly due to a lack of focus on what’s most important to improve and a low sense of urgency for action. People struggle to prioritize important, long-term, strategic efforts against the crisis of the day. As a result, they fail to reach their growth potential.”
“Many organizations fail to set goals that inspire transformation. Instead, they settle for a 10% improvement that comes mainly from doing the same thing but a little better.”
“Many companies approach management and improvement from a standpoint that being wrong is unacceptable, therefore incentivizing a bias for favorable results from each activity or else consequences shall be dealt to the one who attempted change.”
“In setting a goal that stretches the organization's existing capabilities, leaders initiate a journey that will require advancement in science, technology, engineering, and talent that would otherwise remain stagnant.”
“FIT was defined based on the collective learnings of a century of Scientific Management and decades of hands-on experience working inside some of the world's leading companies like Nestle, Mars, the Military Industrial Base, the Clorox Company, and several others to enable more successful achievement of corporate goals.”
“Continuous Improvement is often thought of as a set of tools and principles to be applied to how work is done on the frontlines. However, companies that thrive develop a culture of Continuous Improvement that permeates every level, job, and aspect of how the organization operates.”
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strategy, goal-achievement, goals, leadership, innovation, strategy-execution, focus, transformation, agile-strategy-execution
