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Starting Conditions
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The Must-Win Battle Journey. Part One: Engaging Minds and Hearts at the Top
disarray. These differences in “starting regulators. The more personal exercises will
conditions” will impact your choice of start the group on the emotional side of the
MWBs, the urgency surrounding them, and MWB journey; the others begin to develop
the relative emphasis to be placed on the the intellectual, rigorous analysis side.
emotional and intellectual dimensions of the Whether you spend more time opening
journey. To plan an optimum journey you emotional windows or on intellectual
must first look closely at your starting exercises will depend on your starting
conditions and answer the questions in the conditions.
box opposite.
Step 2: Colliding to Decide: Defining and
Engaging the Leadership Team Agreeing Must-Win Battles
Of course you cannot open windows forever,
The next step for most organizations is to you need to get to the heart of the matter,
hold a kick-off event for the management which is deciding on the must-win battles
team. This typically means taking the most your business needs. A well-chosen MWB:
senior managers offsite for up to a week to
identify, through intense discussion and • Has impact: On the whole
debate, the company’s MWBs – and ends organization, not just one part of it.
with each member of the top team publicly • Is externally focused: If you are
committing to support this agenda pre-occupied with internal battles There will be winners and losers
unreservedly. This first phase of the journey
tends to be short and intense – and to have
you will lose in your markets; a
common external “enemy” or goal
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as a long list of potential initiatives gets
robustly challenged to reach the
three key steps. creates energy. shortlist of 3 to 5 battles.
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Emotional
Journey
Kick-off Event
Assess
Starting Open Hearts Define Commit to Move to
Conditions & Minds Battles One Agenda Phase 2
Intellectual
Journey
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robustly challenged to reach the shortlist of the event feeling enthusiastic and committed
3 to 5 battles that will receive the lion’s share to the must-win battle agenda and new ways
of management attention and resources in of working together. But real success is
the coming months. Conflict is inevitable and determined by what happens back at the
the shared understandings built in the office.The choices and promises made at the
previous step are critical to promote event must now become reality and shape
productive dialogue now. the organization’s actions and behaviours.
Without these changes, there will be no
It will also be a testing time for the leader. The success.
leader who arrives at the kick-off event with a
fixed idea of the “right” list of MWBs and So engaging the team is just the end of the
imposes these is in trouble. There will be no beginning of your MWB journey. As an
buy-in and the battles are unlikely to be won. introduction to our next perspective, which
The most successful MWBs are those Neither is selecting must-win battles a popu- addresses the challenges of winning back at
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that tap into the groups’ aspirations and
create organizational excitement.
larity contest.If MWBs are chosen on the basis
of who is supporting them rather than
the office, we leave you with the words of a
MWB journey leader:
Excitement leads to commitment, and intellectual rigor,you have a problem.The most
commitment leads to success. successful MWBs are those that tap into the “Over time, individual battles will be won or
” groups’ aspirations and create organizational
excitement. Excitement leads to commitment,
lost; what endures and drives further
success are the new ways of working
and commitment leads to success. together.”