NOTESNO. 28
Poll: What most often slows execution in your organisation?
Execution usually slows because of clarity problems, not effort problems.
When execution slows, the instinct is to push harder.
More meetings.
More follow-ups.
More urgency.
But across organisations, the drag usually comes from somewhere else.
Decisions that take too long to land.
Priorities that keep shifting.
Ownership that's implied, not explicit.
Too much running at once.
None of these are effort problems.
They're clarity problems.
Once clarity erodes, speed follows — quietly.
Poll: What most often slows progress in your organisation?
- Bottlenecks take too long
- Decisions change too often
- Priorities aren't clear
- Too much work in progress
ALSO IN THE REGISTER
- Entry 10The steering committee meets every fortnightA steering committee that receives decisions as updates is not governing, and the fix starts with five lines on the paper.2 MIN
- Entry 09The operating model comes after the system (it never does)A programme cannot skip the operating model, it can only skip designing it.2 MIN
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