So far, we’ve discussed two pitfalls that prevent organizations and people from getting things done – first, they get stuck in the status quo. They get trapped in “how we’ve always done things.” Or second, they manage to break through the status quo, but they get so excited about all the different opportunities to change things for the better that they try to do too many things all at once.
If you manage to shake yourself and your team loose from the status quo and you prioritize your most important tasks, you’re halfway there. But this is where we sometimes fall into pitfall #3 – we don’t approach our most important goals systematically. We don’t take the time to think through our strategy to achieve each goal, who should be responsible for what, or how we will know if we’re making progress.
If this sounds familiar to you, you’ve probably been introduced to the Leadership Framework. The Leadership Framework is a tool I’ve used in many settings throughout my career to avoid this pitfall of incompleteness – of missing things.