STAYING POINTED AT THE RIGHT THING

North Star

The overall mission for the business, then for each part of it - one at the top, one active per department.

Definition

The overall mission for the business, then for each part of it. One sits at the top. Each department has one of its own, and it has to serve the company's, not compete with it. Kept live in the platform rather than filed in a document.

Why it exists

You can climb fast and still have the ladder against the wrong wall.

Example

Beep's company North Star is cash in on the terms the client agreed. Finance has one of its own that serves it: collect on those terms. Tasks that do not serve it wait.

Also in Staying pointed at the right thing

Alignment score
Drift
Strategic Compass
Weekly Pulse
Will it make the boat go faster?

Referenced by

No published piece declares this term yet. The list fills itself as the corpus grows.