Coordination III

It takes policies devised to benefit the whole to sort out this conflict.

As a simple example, Salespeople love to please customers with rush orders, and manufacturing people prefer long uninterrupted  production runs.  But you cannot have long production runs and handle unexpected rush orders all at the same time.  It takes policies devised to benefit the whole to sort out this conflict.

On a larger canvas, in World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt coordinated political, economic, and military power to defeat Nazi Germany, using United States' productive capacity to support the Soviet Union, thus allowing it to survive and degrade the Nazi war machine before Americans landed in Normandy.  Another element of strategy, one with great consequences, was to focus the bulk of American resources to first winning in Europe before fully taking on Japan, a complex coordination of forces over time.  Neither of these crucial policies would have emerged out of decentralized decision making among the Departments of State and War, the various war production boards, and multiple military commands.

ACTION POINT: Coordinate polices devised to benefit the whole of the organization.