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30s MINDSET SHIFT: Your Organization Isn’t Aligned... It’s Just Coordinated

Meetings don’t create alignment. Systems do.

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Glenda Carnate
May 05, 2026

Read time: 2.5 minutes

If teams work together but produce conflicting results, they lack alignment as they coordinate and have no direction to guide them.

Everyone attends the same meetings, uses the same slides and implements the same strategy.

Yet the execution ends in three different directions. Marketing focuses on reaching, sales on revenue, and ops on controlling costs. They are all correct… however, they are not aligned because the overall system or process will not allow them to function together as a team.

How Does the "Alignment" Process Break Down?

1. Alignment Is Different Than Coordination!
Just because two meetings are happening does not mean that they will produce the same end results.

2. The Decision Rights Are Ambiguous.
Multiple voices dilute the ability for someone to feel ownership of the decision.

3. Different Types Of Incentives Are Pulling Apart.
Each team is always optimizing for itself, not for the entire system.

4. Metrics Do Not Align.
If the two KPIs differ and present two different realities.

5. Interpretations Fill In The Gaps.
When there is no clarity, execution becomes fragmented.

6. It is not the individuals, it is the systems!
If the underlying structure of a company is misaligned, so will the results.

💡Key Takeaway: 

You cannot create alignment for an organization by giving staff members directions… you must put into place systems that staff cannot misinterpret.

When the outcomes differ from what the organization desired, there is misalignment in the system… instead, it is operating in competition with itself.

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