A estratégia é a história (parte IV)

"Even as you strive for a big-picture view of your business, you need to become intimate with it at the ground level. After all, you’re leading a group effort. You need to connect with people throughout the business so that you can both inspire them and learn from them. If you don’t fill them in on your thinking, they’re not likely to make strategy part of their agenda. And if you don’t enlist their knowledge in creating plans, you are wasting an invaluable resource: As the people who talk with the customers and do a lion’s share of the work, they possess information you can’t do without.
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everyone in an organization has a right to understand strategy and a right to be involved in it. “Good communication is not simply sending and receiving. Nor is good communication simply an exchange of data,” he wrote. “The best communication forces you to listen.” Throughout, however, De Pree recognized that leaders have an obligation to provide and maintain momentum: “It is the feeling among a group of people that their lives and their work are intertwined and moving toward a recognizable and legitimate goal.” Such momentum comes from a “clear vision of what the corporation ought to be, from a well-thought out strategy to achieve that vision, and from carefully conceived and communicated directions and plans that enable everyone to participate and be publicly accountable in achieving those plans.” Napoleon put it this way: “Define reality, give hope.”
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As a strategist, that means your ability to communicate - and to connect with others in the organization - is as vital to your success as anything else you do."
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Os seus trabalhadores... a sua equipa de gestão, conhecem a estratégia da empresa? Já lhes contou essa história? Já lhes definiu a realidade e deu esperança? Como é que eles sabem o que devem fazer, que opções devem tomar para estarem alinhados com essa história?
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Trecho retirado de "The Strategist" de Cynthia Montgomery