Fiona’s recent quote on LinkedIn made me smile!
It reminded me of something Bob Kegan once wrote about a widespread cultural phenomenon in many organizations:
“In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for.
[…] Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people’s impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations. Hiding.
We regard this as the single biggest loss of resources that organizations suffer every day.”
— Robert Kegan, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Can you imagine how much healthier and more effective organizations could be if they redirected this wasted energy via IBP?
Why IBP in that context?
I have no doubt: a solid Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process — when it is designed not just as a technical system but as a human-centered, transparent collaboration framework — can significantly improve organizational culture and help teams focus their energy on what really matters.