Twenty years in product leadership taught me to sequence four things:
Mission first. Measures second. Manpower and empowerment next. Management last.
Most organisations invert this. They start with management structures, add headcount, define KPIs, then wonder why nobody can articulate the mission.
The sequence matters. Each element creates the conditions for the next. I've applied this framework across six M&A transactions and two successful exits. The pattern holds.
What's your sequence?
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First Comment
Do you start with mission or structure? It's a question most leadership teams never explicitly ask — and the answer explains a lot about why transformation stalls.