John R. Dallas, Jr. CAO (Chief Alignment Officer) Hillview Partners Network LLC  Over Three Decades of Front-Line C-Level Career Perspective Form the Strong Foundation for Hillview's Consulting and Coaching Models and Methods Hello and Welcome to Clients, Prospects, Reporters, Prospective Partners, and other Seekers of Strategic Alignment: While serving as President of five earlier companies, then I might have resisted Hillview’s sound logic for bringing in outside alignment specialists to validate my teams and I were measurably aligned and moving forward.  Yes, I would have been wrong to avoid this thinking.  Imagine a table with 10 people meeting to hear the leader explain a new plan.  There are detailed handouts, charts, graphs, slides and other exhibits.  Heads nod in assent, copious notes are taken, cogent questions are asked, considered responses are given, and discussion is robust.  The meeting ends with a sense everyone is on parallel tracks  — per Plan — and about to move forward.  Are 11 individuals fully aligned?    Did some percentage of participants miss the leader’s specifically stated alignment imperatives?  Highly likely.  What percentage of the group “got it” and how many did not?  Among the 11 individuals at table, even one or two out of alignment adds unacceptable risk to Plan. More c-level executives and other team leaders are admitting and addressing likelihood of misalignment among key individuals.  Do you?   Leaders and managers want and need to believe they and their teams are fully aligned.  Analytically the odds are not in our favor.  I learned too many expensive lessons about dire consequences of misalignment.      Indeed misalignment of people and other resources creates real risks.  Often it takes glaring failure to open our eyes to misalignment present and unaccounted for at earlier stages of an ill-fated team initiative.    Missed deadlines, project failures, organizational set-backs, and career catastrophes can be attributed to previously undetected or ignored misalignment.  Bankruptcies, business closings, downsizings, and other types of failure can be traced to misalignment.  With Hillview’s models, risks of misalignment are reversed — in favor of sustainable alignment.   Hillview will support your efforts in defining, assigning, refining, measuring and sustaining essential strategic situational alignment.   Aligning your specific needs with Hillview’s methodology and applied technology requires discussion.  Today, please call me to schedule an exploratory briefing.  I look forward to meeting with you.  Thank you.    John R. Dallas, Jr. CAO (Chief Alignment Officer) Hillview Partners Network LLC   312.643.8000 jrdallasjr@hillviewpartners.com   For routine updates and news, please return often to www.hillviewpartners.com; always a work-in-progress   Copyright © 2005-2009 Hillview Partners Network LLC