That simplicity starts with a Higher Purpose, because when people are very clear on their Higher Purpose, the context or the bigger picture, they are better able to work out what is needed and how best to achieve it. This is particularly important in Safety or any organisations where there is remote working or a distributed population – people who are working autonomously and may not be closely supervised. It is extremely important under these conditions that people have the simplicity of leadership – great clarity on the context, the Higher Purpose, because they don’t always have someone to confer with (to remind them of their Higher Purpose).  They have to make decisions themselves to do the right thing on the spot (in isolation).

Quite often for any organisation, the great opportunity is to create that simplicity through great leadership – it is an opportunity to release the next level of performance. We have a choice as to where to intervene next, do we turn up the volume on the management side, i.e. more tools, systems, processes etc. or do we turn it up on the leadership side?  But here’s the important point – the more we lead, the greater the clarity of our cause, our belief, our Higher Purpose, the less we have to manage.

When we create the clarity of the Higher Purpose we create a space into which people can step, and step up, which means that they can chose to relate differently to the content, what they do and who they do it for and relate to these things as ways to enable more of their Higher Purpose.

So, this is where WhyNot tends to focus on, releasing extraordinary potential/performance through people in organisations. Most organisations that have been around a bit have got management cracked – if they didn’t have this sorted the organisation simply wouldn’t exist anymore.  So, the biggest potential we see is in the leadership/context space, getting reconnected at a very human level to why you do what it is you do and supporting/enabling people to see what it is they do as a full expression of that.