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Power
Your Business to Ultimate Success with Total Organizational
Poise!
Dr.
Oladele Akin-Ogundeji
President, OD Synergy Ltd (http://www.odsynergy.com)
Summary:
Organizations that concentrate on developing and marshalling
total poise are powering their businesses for long-term corporate
growth, success, and survival! Total organizational poise
occurs where all the key systems of an organization are in
their best state and are fully optimized to deliver the best
they could on a sustainable basis. Total organizational poise
is the heart and bedrock of high-performance organizational
systems. Fostering total organizational poise in your business
is an enduring challenge but an ultimately rewarding enterprise
for long-term strategic advantage and growth.
The
power of poise can be phenomenal in both living and non-living
systems!
Banking on the Power of Poise
The power of poise can be phenomenal in both living and non-living systems.!
Groups and individuals achieve a far greater performance when they are physically, mentally and emotionally vital than when they are physically, mentally and emotionally sick.
When an automobile is in top condition-all cylinders firing, all mechanical parts in sync, and all the peripherals and accessories are mint- what do you expect to get from it? When a motorway or freeway is spotless and the asphalting is of excellent quality, how will your ride be? When all parts of an organization- the various systems, the processes, the roles and the resources- are in top condition for the strategic situation of the business, how well will it attain its strategic mission?
Each of
the above cases represents a situation when the system is
in total poise- its parts are wholesome-in equilibrium, in
the best condition, and operate in sync.
When your people are poised for personal excellence-their attributes, attitudes, and talents are in the best condition- your organization is better able to achieve its mission than when these people are in pitiable or average state. A far greater impact is achieved-and sustainably so- when the organizational systems are optimized and are effectively in sync with actualizing people's attributes. When there is effective synergy between the actualizing people's attributes and the integrating systems and facets of your organization, your business will achieve breakthrough performance which replicates on a sustainable basis.
The Ultimate Corporate Challenge
Developing total organizational poise and effective organizational synergy is the ultimate corporate challenge for long-run success and growth!
Keen watchers of corporate history and practices will marvel that not many top managers and Board are heeding lessons of limited corporate success arising from poor alignment and lack of effective organizational synergy. You need look no further than the increasing or urgent need for stringent regulations on responsible, transparent corporate governance in the last 10 years globally!
How you see your corporate mandate is key. If you see part of your mission as that of ensuring the future of your organization in business, you will be taking imaginative steps in the direction of total organizational poise. With that vision, the heart, essence, and strategic thrust of efforts at sustainable high performance is to facilitate the synergy of the systems in a condition of best-fit. It is to imaginatively foster the synergy of personal excellence and corporate excellence for driving sustainable high performance.
In a pulsating business environment your ultimate challenge is how to achieve and maintain total poise for sustainable high performance and corporate growth.
In a business environment of discontinuities and fast obsolescence of knowledge and, even, technology, the competition is beyond
technology, but what drives technology, creativity and innovations:
the superior essence of the human mind and character. This
is what will create the ultimate strategic edge for long-run corporate growth.
Exploring The Concept of Total Poise
To understand any phenomenon or paradigm, a first principle is to examine its elements. Then, to consider its essence based on the relationships of those elements. This is how we can appreciate the concept of total poise. 'Total' refers to all the key systems as well as subsystems and facets in all aspects of 'poise'.
Regarding 'poise'. Some concepts that promote an understanding of poise are wholesomeness, wholeness, integrity, strength, dignity, alignment, equilibrium, synchronization, and synergy.
On the flip side, the essence of poise can be seen from its absence. Such words or phrases as tension, confusion, disturbance, chaos, uncoordinated condition, unrelaxed condition, lack of composure, and risk aversion, vividly demonstrate what lack of poise connotes.
The Nub ...Pursue This Process to Its Logical Conclusion.
How many of your top managers will not feel fulfilled when your organization exhibits strength, wholeness, integrity, and wholesomeness? When you add alignment of all roles and resources with the strategic thrust, effective synergy of skills and systems, and the wholesome equilibrium of the subsystems in the strategic situation you'd be approximating an excelling organization that can stand the competitive fire of these times.
On the flip side, how many of your top managers believe your organization can excel when the following conditions afflict their systems, processes and resources: tension, confusion, disturbance, chaos, uncoordinated condition, unrelaxed condition, lack of composure, and risk aversion?
Fostering Total Organizational Poise
In
an organization, total poise occurs when all the key systems
and people of the organization are well-developed, empowered
and positioned to give the best they can. This results in
effective organizational synergy. Ineffective organizational
synergy has led to failures of several organizations globally.
Total poise is critical to your corporate success, on a sustainable basis. In deed, your organization could attain some measure of 'success' some of the time with what we can consider as 'partial poise'. However, with total organizational poise- when all its systems are in top condition- your organization will accomplish breakthrough performance and approximate excellence on a sustainable basis.
Powering
your business with total organizational poise is an enduring
challenge but an ultimately rewarding enterprise. Total organizational
poise results from a deliberate nurturing, empowering, aligning,
and positioning of all the key systems of your organization
to be the best they could be in order to give the best they
could give.
Consider These IssuesWhat are those aspects of poise and total-ness critical in your organization's strategic situation? How do you arrive at consensus across the organization? How do you drive commitment to the total poise equation you are adopting? What framework are you going to adopt and how will this be institutionalized without being fossilized in your organization?
You and your top managers need to explore and address these,
and similar issues if you really care about your ultimate
business mandate, that of creating the future of your
business today through fostering effective organizational
synergy.
Dr. O.
Akin-Ogundeji , is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds PhD of the University
of London and leads OD Synergy, a team of
strategic human resources and organization development consultants
in Africa. He also leads Better Poise (http://www.betterpoise.com), promoting people's capacity to be on top of their world
and attain sustainable self-fulfilment.
The total
organization development brief, OD Synergy Digest (http://www.odsynergy.com/od-synergy-digest.html) , gives you insight on developing total poise for sustainable
high performance in your organization.
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