The ideal organization is marked by a transparent focus by all on a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations are more dystopian than utopian, more obfuscational than clear, and have subplots upon subplots in the many corporellas taking place at the same time. It’s often hard to find the main nugget, heart of the matter, keystone, cipher, crux, core, hinge, fulcrum, hinge, nexus, or whatever word you want to use to describe what really matters.
The issue is that it is important to figure out what really matters and to take into account everything that’s going on in your particular diystopian obfuscational corporella at the same time.
What seems to work sometimes is to figure out where you need to go and where you need to take the organization first, ignoring all the sideshows and distractions; then figure out how to navigate the politics and subplots that are part of the organization’s current realities. If you get distracted by the politics, you become part of the corporella. If you ignore it, you get destroyed by it. So manage it as part of the path to success.
