It was management's job to plan, coordinate, direct, and control the activities of their subordinates. In adaptive cultures, individuals assume ownership of responsibility for the performance of the collective organization. This dimension is synergistic with serving external groups that you are linked to in a common business process. Ownership means taking responsibility for their success as well as your own. In hypercompetitive environments, there is little precedent to guide us.
Effective organizations discover the future by acting quickly and learning from their experience.
Analyses are outdated by the time they are completed. Speed means acting quickly in the context of process understanding and the needs of customers, suppliers, and partners. It means constantly seeking out opportunities for organizational improvement rather than responding to requests from others. It means optimizing joint outcomes rather than individual ones. Collaboration is more than teamwork, because it takes place outside of as well as within teams.