Given the number of meetings most organizations have, you’d think everyone couldn’t help but be on the same page. Sort of a natural, automatic byproduct of spending so much time together. Nice idea, but not really true.

In fact, organizing is one of the most difficult things for an organization to do. If you think this is a subcritical issue—a minor annoyance, perhaps—think again. It’s a factor that affects real-world operational performance and profitability. A recent Trend Micro survey in the field of cybersecurity says 80 percent of all organizations expect to be breached this year, a rather shocking admission. The single biggest reason? Not technology, not finance, not hackers from the Dark Web. The biggest vulnerability is organizational misalignment. The link everyone’s missing is the bottle of proverbial glue that binds the organization into a single, focused entity. And the global economy is paying an increasingly high price for these disconnects.

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