A Google Sheet Game for Organizational Alignment and Priority Setting
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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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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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