{"id":22,"date":"2006-07-15T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-02-20T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T18:15:16","slug":"crossing-the-knowing-doing-gap-the-%e2%80%9cpurposeful-doing%e2%80%9d-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/22\/crossing-the-knowing-doing-gap-the-%e2%80%9cpurposeful-doing%e2%80%9d-movement","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Knowing-Doing Gap More Effectively: The \u201cPurposeful Doing Movement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

We at Excellence Tree consider ourselves to be part of what we call the Purposeful Doing Movement.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This movement is focused on\u00a0helping\u00a0individuals and organizations to execute more activities that are truly central to fulfilling their core values and missions – and fewer\u00a0activities that\u00a0are not central to\u00a0doing so. We believe that regardless of our titles within our organizations (CEO, \u201cleader\u201d,\u00a0 janitor, ect.), the\u00a0the most important thing\u00a0at the end of the day is\u00a0whether or not we are frequently executing activities important to our team’s\u00a0success an extremely high percentage of the time (80-100% of the time). Why is the Purposeful Doing Movement so important right now? Three major answers come to mind right now:
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  1. Execution crises:<\/strong> Purposeful doing, at both an organizational level and an individual level, is frequently extremely low. In fact, we have found that most leaders believe that people execute at a high level less than 20-30% of the time! That means that money is consistently being paid to people who are doing something besides their jobs more than half the time \u2013 this is a tremendous waste of time and budget (not to mention very taxing to the morale of those who are interested in excellence).\u00a0\u00a0This low level of purposeful doing has been tolerated for quite awhile, but may be even more dangerous to teams in the future for a variety of reasons, including . . .<\/li>\n
  2. Globalization:<\/strong> Like it or not, most of us who run businesses currently deal with more competition than ever. And it\u2019s only going to get MORE competitive in today\u2019s global marketplace. Execution has been a \u201cnice thing to have\u201d in the past \u2013 in the future it\u00a0may be the difference between companies that thrive and those that flounder in the increasingly global marketplace. The days of allowing those who are not interested in high levels of execution to have great influence over your organization will soon be over, with more consistent success\u00a0going to\u00a0organizations with the most Purposeful Doers – in part due to their victories in what may be called the\u00a0ongoing (and increasingly competitive) \u201cWar for Talent.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. The \u201cWar for Talent\u201d:<\/strong> With globalization comes more opportunities for the most talented (and purposeful) individuals.\u00a0 These valuable people realize that they\u00a0can choose to stay with our teams or take their talent elsewhere at almost any time.\u00a0 Business leaders are truly in a \u201cwar\u201d for individuals like these \u2013 a war fought against organizations\u00a0both locally and worldwide. Mechanisms for increasing\u00a0levels of execution\u00a0can help teams to both retain the talented people who enjoy being a part of a purposeful\u00a0team \u2013 and to train less talented individuals to execute at extremely high levels (both critical factors to long term organizational excellence).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These three factors (along with a few others) indicate that consistent success is only going to become more challenging in the future. What\u2019s the good news? It\u2019s that Purposeful Doing at an organizational level is quite simple \u2013 even if it is not always easy. In fact, we at EU say that this form of organizational excellence is a \u201cpiece of CACE\u201d (the Clarity, Alignment, Consensus, and Execution).\u00a0 To read more about EU\u2019s Organizational CACE Analysis, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We at Excellence Tree consider ourselves to be part of what we call the Purposeful Doing Movement.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This movement is focused on\u00a0helping\u00a0individuals and organizations to execute more activities that are truly central to fulfilling their core values and missions – and fewer\u00a0activities that\u00a0are not central to\u00a0doing so. We believe that regardless of our titles within our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamgroup-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}