It’s Time to Fire Dilbert: Towards Dynamic Strategic Alignment
So, the next time someone says that alignment is needed for your organization as a whole, or for its plans and/or strategies, stop the music! Ask whether this alignment is about Mom or about making a revolution. And don’t forget to ask whether there is a willingness to fire Dilbert or at least counsel the clown in a serious Come-to-the-Show meeting. Then, if the signals are auspicious, fly high and fast through the dense fog of change and stretch. And as you fly so beautifully, maintain your flying formation of strategic sufficiency, trace, and tight joints. Involve all the other planes in a developing plan that becomes comprehensible and comprehensive precisely because everyone got involved in the planning grope. Everyone got involved in the grope, and we didn’t allow Dilbert to stand on the sidelines, sucking up payroll, waiting for yet another Launch-and-Abandon failure with a sick glee borne of his silent and unswerving glidepath to Retirement and Death.