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SMART Early-Warning System™
  The "SMART Early-Warning System (EWS)" is a new tool that has been developed by Jackson Leadership Systems and Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Professor Sydney Finkelstein to identify critical leadership, strategy, and process areas within an organization that require immediate attention.

EWS was developed based on 8 years of research that went in to the writing of the business best-seller "Why Smart Executives Fail" by Sydney Finkelstein and new research done since its publication.  The research identified 15 critical differentiators between organizations that remained successful in their industries over a long period of time and ones that were not able to remain successful.

  The EWS is a diagnostic survey tool that a board of directors, senior management team, and/or one level below the senior management team complete.  It consists of 75 questions that focus on the critical 15 leadership, strategy, and process differentiators.

EWS is administrated via a web interface and takes only 12 minutes to complete.  Results can be scored immediately and are compared to percentile norms based on industry or country.

Because EWS focuses on areas of leadership, strategy, and process, it appeals to a senior-level (i.e., board and C-suite) audience.
 


 

Who can EWS help?

  • Chairs and board of directors
  • CEOs
  • VPs of HR
  • Heads of Divisions

Types of Businesses that EWS can be particularly helpful to:

  • Large Corporations
  • Government/Not-for-Profit Entities
  • Venture Capital-/Private Equity-Backed Portfolio Firms
  • Family-Owned Businesses going through Succession
  • Middle-Market Businesses going through high-growth
  • Newly-Spun Out Businesses
  • Newly Privatized Businesses

Ways in which EWS can help:

  • Helping senior management, board of directors, and organizational leaders identify "red flags" that require immediate attention
  • Teambuilding with the senior executive team, by getting better alignment on key areas of leadership, strategy, and process
  • Driving organizational change initiatives, building consensus and alignment
  • Understanding and avoiding leadership, strategy, and cultural difficulties in integrating a newly acquired division or organization

 

·SMART Leadership™

o Do you have the right Skill-Set among your Executives and Directors, where they demand to learn from their mistakes and constantly ensure a "reality check" on key assumptions?

o Do you possess the best Top Team/Board Structure & Process to optimize rigorous debate, minimizing risk to the organization?

o Do you have a “Leadership Funnel” in place to ensure future succession needs?

 

·SMART Strategy™

o Have you conducted a Strategic Assumption Analysis™ to ensure that your strategy is on track, and not en route to obsolescence?

o Are key organizational stakeholders aligned with the strategy or are you vulnerable to “blockers”?

 

·SMART Process™

o Is your organizational culture a contributor to your success or do you succeed in spite of it?

o Can you feel a culture of “personal accountability” when you walk the halls of your organization?

o Where are the “hot-spots” within your organization where your employees are not as committed to your success?

Jackson Leadership’s "SMART Early-Warning System™" provides you with a full-report summarizing an intensive analysis of the degree to which your organization has (1) SMART Leadership™, (2) SMART Strategy™, and (3) SMART Process™, and suggesting actionable recommendations for correcting areas of risk.

Once completed, the "SMART Early-Warning System™" becomes an easily revisited process.  It is only through carefully monitoring the 3 Pillars on an ongoing basis that a SMART Organization™ ensures it will continue to stay on top.  As recent corporate disasters make clear, taking your eye off the ball of these important indicators can have terminal consequences.

By implementing the "SMART Early-Warning System™," Jackson Leadership and Professor Finkelstein will ensure that your legacy is one of having built, and passed on to the next generation of leaders, a SMART Organization™.

Click here to learn more about the Jackson Leadership "SMART Early-Warning System.

For more information on the SMART Practice Area, including the "SMART Early-Warning System™," contact Eric Jackson at leaders@jacksonleadership.com or +1.239.273.4888

Links to More Information on the SMART Practice Area:

 

More information on the new Half-Day and Full-Day Workshop on how to build a 'SMART Organization'

More information on the Amazon #1 Business Best-Seller Why Smart Executives Fail

Read more about Dartmouth's Tuck School Professor and Jackson Leadership Special Consultant Sydney Finkelstein
Eric Jackson's Biography

Read a review of "Why Smart Executives Fail" from BusinessWeek

Read Sydney Finkelstein's Op-Ed on "Why Smart Executives Fail" from the Wall Street Journal
Read a review of "Why Smart Executives Fail from the Globe & Mail

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