Is Your Company a Black Box?
Score your team's alignment in 12 questions. Find out if your strategy is reaching the people who execute it.
95% of employees can't articulate their company's strategy. Where does your team fall?
Strategy Clarity
1. Can every employee articulate your company's top 3 priorities this quarter?
2. Have you communicated your annual strategy in a format beyond a slide deck or all-hands?
3. Do new hires understand the company's strategic direction within their first 2 weeks?
4. Could your VP of Engineering and VP of Sales independently describe the same company goals?
Goal Linkage
5. Does every department have goals that mathematically link to a corporate objective?
6. Can an individual contributor explain how their work contributes to a company-level metric?
7. Do you have a documented mapping from CEO objectives → department → team → individual?
8. When a department misses a goal, can you trace the impact on the corporate scorecard?
Feedback Loops
9. Do you receive a weekly signal — without asking — on whether the company is on track?
10. Can you identify a stalled initiative within 7 days, not 30?
11. Do teams share progress with each other, or only upward to management?
12. Is there a regular cadence (weekly or biweekly) where blockers are surfaced and resolved?
Answer all 12 questions to see your score.