Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit

CHAPTER FIVEGet RIP’d: Rapid Improvement Plans

We often use the phrase “share the insomnia” in our work at Ownership Thinking because we want every employee in our client organizations to be thinking about, and acting on, the important issues—the issues that may in fact keep the owners awake on occasion. To be 100 percent effective, Ownership Thinking must be drilled all the way through the organization, from both top to bottom and bottom to top. When working with companies, I use the concept and language of “cascading” to drive this point home. Figure 5.1 is a good visual of this concept.

FIGURE 5.1

Most people think of a waterfall when they ...