It’s Not What You Say… It’s What You Do
December 24, 2007 by admin
Filed under Books, Management
How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company
by Laurence Haughton (12300)
In average companies, only about half of what actually gets decided is ever followed through on. The rest of the items just fall through the cracks and get ignored, usually inadvertently. A number of studies have shown that over the last fifty years, 83% of all corporate slowdowns were attributable not to external economic forces but to the lack of follow-through within the organization itself. Therefore, to improve your performance, spend less time worrying about finding the best strategy to use and more time closing the gap between what you say you want to do and what you actually end up doing.
To be more specific, there are four key building blocks you can use to close the credibility gap between what you say and what you do:
1. State a clear, unambiguous direction
2. Get the right people involved
3. Start well by having plenty of buy-in
4. Use personal initiative to keep moving