A Fundamental for Organizational Leaders

The success of any enterprise is greatly determined not only by the skills of its leadership and members, but also by its structure and design.

For example, focusing on your people won’t fix performance problems if the design of your organization is flawed. You are seriously disadvantaged if the organization you are accountable for doesn’t work. Before you can successfully lead your organization, you must ensure its structure is effective.

But what about my skills and experience?

Your preferred leadership style and the way you manage can be a reflection of your personality or a learned approach taken from the myriad of leadership and management styles promoted by the market. That is your choice and experienced decision.

But no style will work for you if your organization isn’t designed with the means to make your way of managing a part of the organization’s culture. A performance management system is that structural means to implement your preferred style. You can’t do it by yourself.

A performance management system, like the Mansis Performance Management System can be your means not only to lead your organization but also to implement change. Without that critical part of your organization’s structure (frequently missing or ineffective in many organizations) you’ll work too hard and spend time on low priority tasks for leadership such as coordinating activities, focusing employee attention, identifying problems and getting people to perform -- processes that the performance management system should take care of.

For some background on the central importance of a performance management system on the role of organizational leadership, please review the following articles:

Fix the System, Not the People	READ
Why Mansis is Not a Training Company	READ
The Developmentally Delayed Organization	READ
Performance Management as Background Activity	READ
Lessons from the Field	READ
The CEO Imperative	READ
Requisite Responsibilities of All Organizational Leaders	READ

If you need to learn and implement an effective performance management system, please contact me at

The Mansis Centre
18 Chatsworth Place
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2J 3K9

Telephone (204) 770-2184
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or by E-mail.

– Bob Kent