Having been a consultant myself, I found the answers to these questions was typically “no”. They have no idea of the time and effort needed to get everyone aligned and moving in the same direction with the same mission, values and goals. Too many personal agendas, need for control and massive personal insecurities get in the way of alignment from my experience.

I hope you’ll get into the more prescriptive methodologies on how to accompish alignment in future articles.

One more thought, I work in banking and I’ve found that effective managers who do all the right things and as a result acheive superior performance, are typically resented by their managers and peers. That’s always been a mystery to me.

Thanks again for bring this important subject up for consideration.