Why Most Teams Are Out Of Sync
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Build's finding that executives often disagree about strategic goals is reinforced by related research conducted by Inc. Navigator, a team-alignment diagnostic and tracking tool for CEOs, which over the past five years has surveyed executives at roughly 600 emerging growth companies.
Asked to list their companies' top three priorities, executive team members were in sync at just 2% of companies. There was even less consensus, if that's possible, when executives were asked about their company's value proposition, according to Inc. Navigator CEO Brent Sapp.
"Leadership consistency is a second-stage challenge that impacts nearly all companies as they move through the no-man's-land from startup to the middle market," Sapp says. In other words, your top team is almost certainly out of whack. Even worse, you are probably in denial about it: 64% of Build survey respondents predicted that their executive team's strategic priorities would match up nearly perfectly.
The importance of transparency is clear (75% called it critical), but growth has a curious way of clouding your team's collective view. The organizations that survive, Sapp says, are those that block out the noise and focus clearly on what customers hire their company to do.
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