We have seen an interesting phenomenon that has grown at an ever-increasing rate over the last decade, as reflected in the October 2017 cover story of Harvard Business Review, "The Overcommitted Organization." Overcommitment has led to team burnout.  Burnout leads to poorly executed projects and poor performance. A potentially valuable business practice, "Continuous Improvement," has often been applied so poorly, by so many, that it has wreaked havoc over a wide swath of businesses. Coupled with poor commitment choices, overcommitment has led to busyness without productiveness, productiveness without yielding results, and/or results that do not deliver superior returns over the long term.

The top Reed•Joseph specialty is addressing this huge problem and helping leaders focus on getting the big things right in order to get THE Job to Be Done....DONE.

Our biggest difference is we place equal priority on (1) getting THE Job to Be Done…DONE and (2) working with the client’s team to build mental models that help them be smarter and better so they can:

• Distinguish relevant information from irrelevant information

• Understand significant observations and their related implications

• Attach initial insights into strategy related insights to build a systems scenario

• Make finer distinctions in analysis that push past the effect and identify the cause

• Know more from seeing less and being better at projecting what will happen next

Simply put, using Reed•Joseph’s Systems Scenarios Approach, we help develop your leadership team’s ability to focus more sharply, question more deeply, and gain higher levels of insights that in turn help your business make the best choices to the complex, high stakes challenges that keep most companies from getting THE Job to Be Done…DONE.

Surprisingly, small to medium-sized businesses do not take advantage of outside consultants as often as large corporations do, despite compelling evidence that privately held businesses can benefit the most.

Over the years, a pattern has emerged from the clients that choose Reed•Joseph.  Most often it is the shared business principles and core values between our clients and Reed•Joseph that make us a good fit for successful collaborations, such as . . . 

• A focus on results and a bias toward action

• An insurgent mind-set that is committed to growth and energized by competition

• A culture of people who want to make an impact and are inspired by the greater good

• An ambitious and driven spirit

• A willingness to take bold steps to define the future and knowing that BOLD is the only way to get there

• Honesty and transparency regarding weaknesses and a willingness to hear candid “tell it like it is” feedback

• Ability to thrive on a challenge to be extraordinary and championing that mind-set in others

• Care for the journey (people, core values, doing what is right) as much as the destination

• Never saying, “that’s not the plan”. They are the ones that say "plans change".

• Knowledge that competition only gets tougher, and the difference in future success or failure will be narrow

• Mission-minded but with a "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" goal

Our clients choose us because they know that Reed•Joseph will get THE Job to Be Done…DONE.

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