Find the single part most holding back the others, so the work fixes the cause rather than a symptom.
The five parts sit in a dependency order. Upstream weakness constrains everything downstream, so it is fixed first. The rule: your weak link is the lowest-scoring part that sits highest in this dependency order. If two are tied, the one higher in the order is the weak link.
| Order | Sub-domain | Why it sits here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (most upstream) | Purpose and direction | There is nothing to build a strategy, plan, or alignment on without a clear direction. |
| 2 | Strategy development | The choices to reach the direction, built on a destination existing. |
| 3 | Goals and planning | Turns the strategy into concrete goals and a plan, depends on the strategy. |
| 4 | Alignment and cascade | Aligns the organization to the plan, depends on the plan existing. |
| 5 | Execution and review | The sustaining layer that tracks and steers the whole. |
Bring your five levels from the Assessment. Then apply the rule to find the weak link.
| Sub-domain | Your score (1 to 5) | Dependency order |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose and direction | 1 | |
| Strategy development | 2 | |
| Goals and planning | 3 | |
| Alignment and cascade | 4 | |
| Execution and review | 5 |
Purpose and direction is solid, strategy is shaky, goals are shaky, and alignment is the weakest. Alignment scores lowest, but strategy and goals sit higher in the order. The weak link is strategy development: the highest-in-order part that is still not reliable. Fix that first, and the parts below it become workable.
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