{"id":12795,"date":"2015-06-09T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2015-06-09T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:00:14","slug":"you-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=12795","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 of 8: You are not alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you drowning in information and complexity?\u00a0 Under impossible pressures to deliver?\u00a0 Feel like you’re in over your head?\u00a0 Take a deep breath… you are not alone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As a turnaround specialist, I’m often called in to guide overwhelmed CEOs back into control of their organisations.\u00a0 They and their management teams almost always have the same complaints: they’re bombarded by distractions all day, their team needs constant decisions, and constant fire-fighting prevents them from focusing on strategic issues and unable to stay ahead.<\/p>\n

Often they have excellent plans, which they struggle to implement<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the field, the plan gets chipped away at and undermined to the point that it fails to deliver: and a new plan must be conceived to adapt to the new reality.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to know who to turn to.\u00a0 Consultants are unaccountable and under-deliver.\u00a0 And not enough people within the organisation are willing or capable of stepping up to assist.\u00a0 The sad end result is a loss of confidence in the people CEOs have around them…which makes regaining control feel even further out of reach.<\/p>\n

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\nDoes this sound familiar?\u00a0 In my experience, the underlying root cause of these symptoms is often a lack of organisational agility. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Most organisations are too slow <\/strong>at making and executing good decisions.\u00a0 Their teams are paralysed<\/strong> by cultures that lack accountability and trust and where weak delivery has become the norm.\u00a0 Initiatives bog down and don’t stick because they’re overcomplicated <\/strong>and they take forever.<\/strong>
\nImmediately restoring this organisational agility is often the first requirement in a turnaround.\u00a0 When you need to get fast results, business as usual just won’t do.\u00a0 So – simply because we’ve had to – at icebreaker as doers not takers we’ve spent 10 years developed and refining a process of getting an organisation from normal to agile in just a few weeks<\/strong>. There are lots of ways to temporarily regain a sense of control, but restoring organisational agility allows you to regain control…and keep it. \u00a0It’s the best and most lasting way to multiply your influence and effectiveness.<\/p>\n

Could you benefit from a roadmap that showed you the counterintuitive things to do<\/strong> – and more common responses – in order to quickly achieve agility in your own organisation?\u00a0 I’m looking to work on a test basis with one or two people who feel that restoring agility could create a quick and dramatic win for their business.\u00a0 If that might be you, I’d like to share some more information with you: just hit “reply” and share a few words about your situation, and I’ll reply to you directly.<\/p>\n

with best wishes,
\nTom<\/p>\n

Tom Pickering FIET
\n+44 (0) 7720 59786+44 (0) 7720 597869
\ntom.pickering@icebreakerexecutive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner 2015 Global Turnaround Firm of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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