The Three Simplest Ways To Make Your Organization Better

None of this is rocket science. Hey, is rocket science still hard?

By this point, we should all probably understand that there’s a difference between “strategy” and “operations,” although, sadly, many people don’t understand that. Strategy refers to “ideas and actions, big-picture goals, moving forward.” Stuff like that. Operations is the process of getting there. You can almost think — a bit narrow, yes — of strategy as the why and the what, and operations as the how, the who, and the where. (Again, narrow, but that can work.)

We also should probably understand by now that “talent,” or the general idea of “having good people in your organization,” is fairly important.

Finally, we should know that people — especially good, motivated people — want to work at a place where the overall identity (even down to the notion of purpose) has some alignment back to them.

Taking all that together, here’s the deal: If you want to have a good strategy and good operations, you ultimately need good people, and to get good people, you need some sense of identity/purpose.

But how do you do that?

Turns out, you really just need to think about three things: