Importance, and elements of organisational health

• Organisational health = critical to strategy execution (Patrick Lencioni: greatest advantage, yet often ignored).
• Health acts as an accelerator and safeguard for strategy.
• Fable of the goose & golden eggs: outcomes can’t be sustained if health is neglected.
• Definition of organisational health: alignment and integrity across leadership, operations, strategy, culture, and competencies.
• Health = not just intelligence (strategy, innovation, financials, technology) but also minimal politics, low turnover, initiative, productivity, and effective meetings.
• Performance = Intellect × Health (both required).

Lencioni’s The Advantage (4 disciplines of health):

• Build a cohesive team (trust, conflict-handling, results-oriented).
• Create clarity (mission, vision, values, plans, priorities, roles).
• Over-communicate clarity (repeat, reinforce, in-person, multiple channels).
• Reinforce clarity through systems, staff, structure, and culture.
• Health is organic, ongoing, like personal health check-ups → requires continual evaluation.
• Signs of health can be seen in meetings (clarity, participation, dynamics).
• Managing interdependence within teams is essential for sustained execution.
• Regularly ask: How healthy are we? What must we address to stay healthy?