Staying Synced on Strategy
The 4 Dimensions of Coherence
I’ve recently been getting some great topic ideas from reader comments - a question from earlier this week that got me thinking:
“Are there systematic practices to prevent disoriented teams in the first place?”
You can see the original thread on the Disoriented Teams post here.
Strategy (overused word, I know) is the glue that keeps teams oriented - so any systemic practices designed to prevent organizational drift have to lean on strategy as the foundation. But what makes one strategy better or worse than another in terms of keeping oriented? The answer is coherence. What I mean by coherence is that the strategy clicks for an organization, like all the puzzle pieces coming together; conversely, an incoherent strategy has one or more aspects due to which it doesn’t quite fit.
There are 4 dimensions of coherence:
legibility
synchronicity
composability
affordability
Legibility
When a strategy is legible, it’s easy for folks to digest. It’s clearly written, well synthesized, chunked into digestibl…
