How much of your Organization stands behind the FOG?

Fog that is beautiful but conceals everything | Photo By: Robshenk/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 | Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AntietamFog.JPG

Have you heard of “Fog of War”? Do you know what it is? Do you relate to it as an organizational leader?

We, the people of the business world are not in war. We’re in peace. We don’t fight amongst each other. We’re all happy doing business with each other. Or, are we??

We have a limited amount of resources to produce things from and a limited number of customers to sell to. We compete for these on a daily basis. When one company is growing market share, there’s another that is surely losing. We’re all in for survival here. And that means war (although of a different form). However, it is not a bloody war, it’s a war of business. What’s at stake is not lives, but livelihoods. The winners and losers are not countries, but companies. But, it surely is a damn war. And as with any war, there always is the FOG OF WAR. You can only reduce it, but you can never eliminate it.

The question is not whether it is there or not, but if you can notice it or not, and how bad is it. And how can you reduce it.