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In this brief series, we’ve been looking at the importance of speed to clarity.
After introducing the concept, we first looked at your personal speed to clarity, then at your organization’s speed to clarity.
Today I want to close the series by showing you a simple pattern recognition that you can use to accelerate your speed to clarity – both personally and as a team, or indeed for an entire organization.
Here’s what I notice: individuals, teams and organizations who have a slow speed to clarity tend to choke at one of these 5 steps linking the recognition of an issue with it’s eventual resolution:
1. RECOGNITION: There’s a problem.
2. FOCUS: The problem has my attention.
3. ANALYSIS: I can clearly see what the root cause of the problem is.
4. PROGNOSIS: I can clearly see what the most likely solutions are.
5. DISCERNMENT: I can clearly see which of the possible solutions is the best answer to the problem.
Take a look. Think back on the last five or six times you have needed speed to clarity on a non-trivial matter – which was the most frequent stumbling point in the steps above?
What about the key teams in your organization – at which step do they most frequently stumble?
What about your organization overall?