Building a Great OrganizationDr. De HicksPresident and CEO

SCGIPerformance Management Consulting for Leaders

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Welcome to the Puget Sound

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When have you been part of something truly great?

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Great Organizations

• arise in the face of great challenges

• triumph because of great leaders• endure because of great people

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Great organizations arise in the face of great challenges.

If the challenge isn’t great, we will do what we are doing now

We take an incremental approach

Remember the rule of 5% in organizational life

Greatness grows from the soil impossibility

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What is the great challenge of our day?

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Great organizations triumph because of great leaders.

• Leadership matters

• Leaders see some part of the future and compellingly describe it to me so that I change my behavior to get to that future

• Leaders create clarity

• Leaders create alignment

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Great Leaders strategically position great organizations to be ready for opportunities

• keep your organization simplesimple at every level

• clarify the significancesignificance of your purpose with every new opportunity

• ask people to sacrificesacrifice…because its worth it

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Mission

Team

Individual

Leader

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Great organizations endure because of great people

Disciplines of great people in great organizations

• crave clarity• create (essential) conflict• curious• connected to significance

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Resilience: a hallmark of a great organization

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Greatness Diluted

When we allow complexity to creep inWhen we focus on words rather than

behaviorFocus on process rather than outcome;

inputs rather than outcomesWhen we suffer from Pathological

Optimism When we (leaders) believe we are Royalty

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Great Organizations arise in the face of great challenges, triumph because of great leaders and endure because of great people.

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