The Power of Clarity

Corporations are stressed – technological innovations have become the source of relentless pressure, and customers/clients have never had higher expectations. Organizations are as lean as they can be, but still struggle to discover any tricks or techniques to help them improve profitability, productivity or workforce effectiveness.

Meanwhile, overlooked and hidden in plain sight, is a new frontier of enormous opportunity to improve productivity and results. This is the part of every organization which is operated without clear objectives – where the most common activities defy traditional processes – where priorities are too numerous to truly be called priorities. According to a Fortune 500 study, as much as 80% of employee time is lost to either confusion or counterproductive activities. The confusion, the constant juggling, the circular decisions – these issues are prevalent and widespread in every organization, but are too-often overlooked or disregarded as an inherent flaw of modern working practices.

While business leaders are busy looking outside their organization for new ways to improve profit and productivity, they are overlooking what Ann Latham has defined as the ‘Disclarity Zone’ within their business. Almost every organization has such zones – they are black holes of ambiguity, inefficient processes and circular collaboration. With The Power of Clarity, Ann explains why this phenomenon exists, and how business leaders can recognise and overcome disclarity wherever it occurs within the organization.