Company Diamond...

The diamond framework aids companies in understanding the alignment between strengths, activities, resources, assets, and values. Ideally all should align and work towards the same goal. In last semester’s leadership course taught by Prof. Lebaron we as students were asked to take on a change project using a leadership principle. For my project I chose to focus on goals.

My wife and I love to set goals. In the past our goals may often become very excessive. As I reviewed and thought about our goals both long and short term and how we go about setting them I realized that we were going about it all wrong. In the past we started near term then moved toward longer time horizons. Looking at our past goals I could see that they were scattered and just hit on various things we wanted to do or achieve. What we lacked was alignment.

After doing some reading I have come to believe that alignment in any organization is key. Key for the family just as much for the corporation. Now once a year when we do our big goal setting we first talk about what values and characteristics are most important to us what long term desires do we have for ourselves and our family. From this perspective we begin setting more granular goals that support our larger ones. The beauty of this is that we now insure our goals are pointed toward the things that are most dear and important to us and that hopefully we never get too far off track.