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A Google Sheet Game for Organizational Alignment and Priority Setting

By

dmvaldman

4mo ago· 4 min readen

Summary

An executive created a game to address organizational alignment issues in growing companies. The game helps teams identify and prioritize problems by making implicit assumptions explicit, using a Google Sheet to facilitate discussions about which issues are most important. The approach aims to prevent cascading tradeoffs and divergent efforts that occur when team members operate with different priorities without revealing their underlying assumptions.

Key quotes

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I found there is often little disagreement on what the problems are, but plenty of disagreement on which were more important.
People then carry these differences into decision making without revealing their working assumptions, cascading tradeoffs are made and efforts diverge.
At work as an 'executive' I found myself often focused on issues of 'alignment,' especially among the other execs.
It just turns out as an organization grows, it operates on fractured sets of implicit assumptions.
I made a game to align people and priorities in a Google Sheet
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A game to align people and priorities

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