Blueprint for Organizational Success2022-10-11T19:51:48+00:00

The Blueprint for Organizational Success

Building a healthy culture is the means to every end you hope for.
The Blueprint for Organizational Success outlines the essential elements needed to build and operate a successful organization. 

The Three Key Elements of Organizational Success

1. Purpose
Organizations will only be as successful as their vision is clear. To build a successful organization, you need to name your purpose (THERE) and commit to achieving it.

2. Structure
These are the language, mental models, and kinds of teams you choose to put in place to achieve your vision.

3. Resources
People and tools breathe life into your structure and make achieving your vision possible.

What is an organization?

An organization is any group of people that come together for a purpose. For example, this organization might be anything from a marriage to the government. Or your organization could be a business or a church.
If an organization wants to operate healthily, it must understand its purpose. And a functioning organization will also create structure, provide resources, and invite its members to achieve that purpose.

Organizational Culture

Organizations live or die by their culture. To be specific, culture is “a consensus among members of an organization concerning what is treated with honor and what is treated with shame.” With this in mind, our culture develops through shared language and the values that your organization embraces.

We often see two distinct types of culture:
– Don’t-make-a-mistake culture: organizational structures shame failure and honor perfection.
– Create something culture: organizational structures honor anything that serves the mission.

In a healthy organization, culture flows from the organization’s purpose. In dysfunctional organizations, culture flows from a secondary standard that pushes the organization’s purpose to the side.

Organizational Values

Naming and communicating our values helps us build a strong foundation and frame our decisions around a consistent mission.

If you don’t acknowledge your values, you will be unable to build a solid organization. When you lie to yourself about what you value or borrow values from the loudest voices around you, you might set yourself against the truth of who you are.

What type of culture does your organization exhibit?

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