Align Your Business to Accelerate Progress Toward Your Key Objectives

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Contact:Kimberly King
Phone: 866-372-2636
Email:Kimberly@cameopublications.com


Align Your Business to Accelerate Progress Toward Your Key Objectives

Glen Rock, NJ (June 2005) – In today’s fast-paced and constantly changing business environment, you need to keep your business aligned. While strategy, people, processes, and systems must all be in place, the continued alignment of these components leads to high performance results. Alignment is especially important if your company outsources functions, provides outsourced services, or is going through a major change, such as a merger or reorganization for growth.

Author and business performance expert Pamela S. Harper advises, “To accelerate progress toward a company’s key objectives, leaders must learn how to align strategic issues with organizational reality issues, so that the right things happen at the right time in the right way to accelerate progress toward your vision.”

In her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results (Cameo Publications, $19.95, ISBN 0-9715739-4-8), Harper shows business leaders how to avoid the hidden roadblocks that could lead to strategic gridlock and prevent them from keeping their business aligned. As Harper explains, business leaders can prevent strategic gridlock when they fully consider all six of the guidelines and principles of organizational reality, which are represented by the acronym U.N.L.O.C.K.® That is, business leaders need to Understand the full challenge, Negotiate buy-in of key stakeholders, Locate cultural advancers and blockers, Organize relevant goals, priorities, and action plans, Communicate credibly, and Keep adjusting.

When you focus on keeping your company aligned, you will find out why many strategies and initiatives that looked good during planning end up mysteriously snarled in a tangled web of persistent organizational problems (“strategic gridlock”) during execution. You will also gain insights into the common but mistaken assumptions leaders make about their organizations, and how to prevent your company from becoming misaligned in the future.

Pamela S. Harper is an internationally known speaker, author, and the founder and president of Business Advancement, Inc. Since 1991, BAI has helped leaders transform their business strategies into high performance results. Pam’s approach is based on 20 years experience as an internal and external consultant to leaders of entrepreneurial, mid-sized, and Fortune 500 companies.
For more information or a review copy of Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results, please call 866-372-2636 or send an email to Kimberly@cameopublications.com.

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