There is a growing understanding that organizations must act in ways that benefit society beyond their immediate financial interests. One opportunity to make this transition is for leaders to incorporate altruistic business practices. Leaders who successfully adopt this approach will see several positive benefits for their organizations.

Goals, change, and work are fundamental aspects that contribute to the success and effectiveness of organizations. Goals provide a sense of purpose and direction, change ensures adaptability and innovation, and work leads to completing them. These elements create a framework for organizational success in a dynamic and competitive environment.

A focus for the last eighteen blog posts was a set of essential elements for achieving success in a significant organizational transformation. The list is not all-inclusive but provides additional insight into the work needed to achieve the desired company vision. A review of the words in these blog posts led to the recommendation that leadership should prioritize care for their employees to accomplish a consequential change initiative successfully.

Intelligent leaders recognize the importance of investing in their workforce's development, engagement, and well-being. Leaders looking to improve the performance of their organizations would be wise to adopt the focus of Conant to "first win in the workplace." Ultimately, the leadership of an organizational transformation must put in the necessary work to put the organization on a successful trajectory that emphasizes the company's human element.

A well-developed vision inspires the organization's stakeholders and becomes the North Star to guide everyone on an intentional collective course toward the desired destination. Companies actively encouraging stakeholder input in an environment of trust and respect can achieve synergy, leading to tremendous success for all participants. Actively considering the needs and interests of stakeholders is a complex and ongoing process, but it is essential for any business's long-term sustainability and success.

Various survey results show that one-third to half of employees believe they are underutilized at work. Adopting an authentic commitment to your company employees is essential for building a positive workplace culture and fostering employee loyalty. Intelligent leaders will commit to listening to their employees and adjust approaches as needed to ensure a positive, inclusive, and productive work environment.

Leaders face a significant challenge in meeting the various demands of keeping their organizations afloat. However, intelligent leaders understand prioritizing a thorough understanding of the needs of their customers. The lean operations approach is listening to the Voice of the Customer, which allows the organization to incorporate consumer feedback into the customer support, marketing, and sales processes.

Taking calculated risks can lead to high-level success in organizational competitiveness, growth, and innovation. The leadership of successful companies understands the benefits of taking calculated risks to improve their organizations continually. Visionary leaders will adopt a proactive and well-executed approach to integrating higher levels of calculated risk-taking into their organizations.

Organizations need to take calculated risks that will lead to failure occasionally. The objective is to develop an environment where what some would call a failure should be seen as a learning experience that we embrace. Taking the time to plan properly upfront provides the best opportunity to reduce overall costs and increases the likelihood of innovation success.

Integrating attention to detail into your business practices and culture can enhance the quality of your products or services, reduce errors, and build trust with your customers and stakeholders. There must be a leadership commitment to establish best practices and ensure that the initial work to infuse attention to detail continues to be ingrained into the organization's work. Attention to detail must be emphasized, as missing one task can cause a project to go off the rails later.

An environment of ambiguity in individual roles can lead to duplication of efforts or failure to complete essential tasks. Establishing defined roles in a business is critical as it contributes to the organization's overall effectiveness and efficiency. Organizations that can demonstrate a commitment to establishing clear definitions of roles that work cohesively at all levels and across disciplines will realize higher levels of success.

Given the rapid acceleration of global change, we must learn to embrace it enthusiastically. Change management is a field that deals with planning, implementing, and guiding organizational changes to ensure they are successful and meet their intended objectives. By following shared principles and practices, organizations can increase their chances of successfully navigating change.

My experience is there is a significant difference between the initial expectation of projects and the outcomes. Failure to effectively review targets makes it unlikely they remain relevant, achievable, and aligned with broader strategic goals. Organizations should establish a structured process with defined review intervals to conduct proactive reviews of planned targets effectively, involve relevant stakeholders, and use key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress.

Policy deployment is essential to leadership work, also known as Hoshin Kanri. It is a structured approach to ensure everyone in the organization works towards common goals. A robust method for aligning organizational efforts with strategic goals and ensuring the organization achieves its vision.

Being an active and dynamic leader involves a combination of personal traits, skills, and strategies that empower you to lead and inspire your team effectively. Becoming an active and dynamic leader takes time and effort that will be invaluable to your team and organization. Leaders who increase their capability in the above combination of personal traits, skills, and strategies will fail to maximize their potential if they do not fully engage with the employees across and at all levels of the organization.

A common theme for most organizations is the lack of efficient and effective two-way horizontal and vertical communication. The nature of our conversations should be appreciative, achieved by using an inquiry-based approach to generate information and statement-based affirmative interactions with the intent to add value. We only become better communicators if we first see the need and then work to improve this essential element of leadership.