
Ask any professional if they are busy, they will usually respond saying that their “plate is full”. In today’s fast-moving business environment, our schedules tend to be very full.
Consider for a moment, if you pile a plate full of, let’s say, cooked spaghetti – and you attempt to place more cooked spaghetti on top of the heaping plateful, what would be the natural consequences? Unless you were to actively monitor the noodles by holding it on top of the pile, the additional spaghetti would fall off the plate.
This is typically what happens with corporate change initiatives. We’re so busy in our day-to-day business, any new responsibilities tend to “fall off the plate” when accountability begins to wane six to twelve months later – thus creating the “program of the month” problem.
How do successful organizations avoid the program of the month? Instead of making the change something that goes on the plate, they do something radically different: they make it the plate.
Sustainable, long-term improvement shouldn’t be an initiative that ends. Business issues such as your Vision, your Values, the methods of delivering service, how to interact with people – should never change. That becomes “the plate”. Everything else - economic circumstances, political and social issues, etc. (what goes on the plate), will continue to shift and change with the seasons.
Real world-class companies secure a strategic foundation they establish once and then reinvest the savings of resources (time, money, and effort spent chasing business fads) towards adapting to the ever-changing aspects of business.
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