Don’t lose focus. Clearly, that
really comes from the leadership team of ensuring that we
stay focused that the opportunities we take on align with
where the organization is
going, that we’re not taking
any opportunities just because
it exists or someone’s willing
to give it to us.
Once the vision has been set
and people are driving toward
it, then new things are coming
into the organization — new
opportunities that are totally
different than the vision you’ve
set. I find that an organization starts to take on those opportunities and suddenly there is
confusion within the organization because you have team
members that are saying, ‘I
thought this is what we’re trying to achieve, and now it
seems like something totally
different.’
I find that a major pitfall for
an organization is they get
excited about the opportunities, but it doesn’t align with
the vision.
So they lose focus. They start
going down so many different
paths that unfortunately their
organization stops rallying
around the work and becomes
more frustrating, more confusing — ‘Who’s doing what?
Who’s on first? Who’s on second?’ Before you know it,
nothing is working and the morale is down and your
organization isn’t achieving
and you’ve spread yourself too
thin. You’re not driving toward
that vision.
We had a customer that
wanted to give us all of their
clerical business. VisionIT
said, ‘We’re not a clerical
staffing company; we are a
technology firm.’ We could
have taken it on. I know we
would have worked hard and
delivered. But I think it would
have caused confusion within
my organization — ‘I thought
we were an IT company?’
That’s a good example of
why we’ve achieved the
results we have because everyone clearly understands that
we are a technology firm first
and foremost.
HOW TO REACH: VisionIT Inc., (877) 768-7222 or www.visionitinc.com
