The Dashboard Way is our perspective on the best way to build a high-performance organization.
Fast Lane organizations run lean – no corporate staff, no HR department, no training department, no strategic planning department. Their executives know a lot about building software, building advertising campaigns, or building buildings, but often have no training in building organizations.
To address this problem, the Dashboard Group spent more than ten years conducting best-practices research. We interviewed dozens of Fast Lane CEOs. We combined our findings with two decades of executive leadership experience working in a wide range of industries, organizations, and functional disciplines.
The result? An integrated methodology designed specifically to help Fast Lane leaders build high-performance organizations. We call it The Dashboard Way, and it involves four elements:
- Decide One Thing. High-performance organizations apply the Discipline of Differentiation to decide which segment to target, and which “One Thing” will be their defining point of differentiation. They are good at many things … but decide to become incredibly, fanatically great at One Thing.
- Drive One Direction. High-performance organizations apply the Discipline of Alignment to optimize their organizations. They systematically align every function – sales, marketing, service, development, finance, human resources, IT, etc. with their One Thing.
- Develop the #One Team. High-performance organizations are led by high-performance teams. They apply the Discipline of Investment to develop their leaders into the #One Team in the industry. Developing the #One Team in the industry will take an investment of both time and money, but will yield an incredible return.
- Deliver Every Time. High-performance organizations apply the Discipline of Execution to build an organization that delivers what they promise. Not one time, but every time.
The Dashboard Way provides a clear roadmap for building a high-performance organization. It uses a highly collaborative, fact-based methodology that helps leaders decide their defining point of differentiation, drive the organization in the one direction, develop high-performance leadership teams, and deliver exactly what they promised every time.
