There are lots of tough decisions to be made at health and human service organizations over the next year. The programs to build (or close). The technology to acquire. The potential partnerships. (For more on those decisions, check out my closing keynote from last week’s institute, Strategy Success In A Chaotic Market.)

The question is how to get the executive team (and then the rest of the organization) on the same page. But you don’t need everyone on the team to agree, you just need them aligned. That as the premise of a recent article, You Don’t Need Everyone to Agree — You Need Everyone Aligned.

What is the difference? Agreement means that the team has addressed and resolved all its disagreements…