Here is my experience. I manage global team of over 8000 people across different functions ranging from sourcing, manufacturing, logistic and planning. I leverage myself by defining the goals of my function and deploying them across the different executives within the organization to allow for autonomous execution of the plans and deliver result. The challenge is the dimension of The organization and the complexity of the context, which makes goals quite difficult frombeing stable. How do I manage it? By working on commin principles which are above goals and allow my team to be flexible in redefining themselves more operational goals when the context is changing
Thank Matteo, very interesting! The common principles sound like Tenets - would you say they are the same (use as deadlock breakers for decision, unless you know better ones, etc)? How frequently do you update the principles? And how do you manage the goals creep? We tend to balloon quite quickly to lots of goals per team (year after year) and then struggle to cut them down.
Here is my experience. I manage global team of over 8000 people across different functions ranging from sourcing, manufacturing, logistic and planning. I leverage myself by defining the goals of my function and deploying them across the different executives within the organization to allow for autonomous execution of the plans and deliver result. The challenge is the dimension of The organization and the complexity of the context, which makes goals quite difficult frombeing stable. How do I manage it? By working on commin principles which are above goals and allow my team to be flexible in redefining themselves more operational goals when the context is changing
Thank Matteo, very interesting! The common principles sound like Tenets - would you say they are the same (use as deadlock breakers for decision, unless you know better ones, etc)? How frequently do you update the principles? And how do you manage the goals creep? We tend to balloon quite quickly to lots of goals per team (year after year) and then struggle to cut them down.