Posted: January 26, 2010 | Author: rickgage | Filed under: First Person thoughts . . ., What makes me tick | Tags: Alignment, Challenge, Change Agent, Different, Global, Insight, Sustainable, Value Creation |
One of the exercises I’ve done in work to explore my personal brand was to capture my unique promise of value in a single sentence. This relates primarily to my professional life but as discussed in other posts here – personal and work lives seem to merge as I get older.
It was hard to do. And my sentence is probably too long. It’s still a work in progress, but here the current draft:
I embrace the global challenge of sustainable value creation through differentiated alignment insights.
It’s long, like many mission statements for organizations, because I want to pack it with a bunch of things that are important to me. Here are some of the chunks of stuff that found their way into that mouthful. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 16, 2009 | Author: rickgage | Filed under: Alignment Insight, Overview, Related Discussions | Tags: Alignment, Alignment Insight, Differentiation, Innovation, Insight, Sustainable, Value Creation |
What is Alignment?
It’s talked about with terms like:
trusted advisor shared vision
skin in the game virtual supply chain
shared risk / reward cross-goaling
Keiretsu ……… mutual success / failure
a common enemy virtual company
integrated supply chain common goals
With any of these terms, alignment is what’s happening to the relationships between individuals and between organizations.
You can probably think back to a time when you’ve been in a team that was well aligned. It feels great. Its productive, fun, challenging and exciting. Why doesn’t it happen more often? Why does it seem so hard to achieve in relationships between organizations or companies?
Why Alignment Insight?
Major improvements don’t come from working harder or execution refinements.
Changing the game . . . Taking it to the next level . . . Creating sustainable differentiation . . .
. . . all require leaps forward based on strategic insight.
It isn’t lightning that strikes unpredictably or a mystical art practiced by those with some secret knowledge. Its grounded in the hard work of relentless innovation.
Alignment Insight explores the steps which can predictably achieve insights that can transform your organization and your business relationships to create greater alignment.
Rick Gage is the Founder and President of Alignment Insight.
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