Building A Successful Company Starts With Focus

It’s the leader’s top priority to learn what team members believe in and support the companies Big Objective.

Everyone must enthusiastically champion the direction of the company.

Without this, the company slowly eats itself alive from the inside out.

“Anyone not proactively supporting a chosen direction will consciously or unconsciously work to subvert it,” wrote Jason Jennings in his book Less is More.

To achieve company focus on the one big objective, destroy functional silos to build cross-functional teams.

Anyone who protects their silos must be replaced with team members who build productive business units.

If everyone is jockeying for position protecting their “department,” nothing becomes productive. Everything ends in waste.

The flatter the organization, the better.

A simple way to check if a company is too fat is by calling a leader within the company, an idea presented by Jason Jennings.

If levels of gatekeepers block your efforts, the company will benefit from a flatter structure.