Line of Sight is the mechanism for establishing vertical alignment and then maintaining it. Your long term goal as an owner is to get everyone understanding how their day-to-day performance impacts the business. You cannot expect people to help meet the goals of the business if they don't know what it is, their responsibilities, and how they are doing.

Topics: Clarity on the end game what is the long game for the business and your role sell, merge, liquidate, IPO? Skin in the game as a member of the organization how do I benefit from helping you achieve the long game? variable compensation - WIIFM? Feedback on progress shared business goals and objectives vertical alignment of employees with strategy horizontal alignment of processes with end users Continuous feedback on performance measurement system based on balanced scorecard electronic and visual management of metrics Structured autonomy top down - creating the structure where autonomy is possible bottom up - taking initiative to solve problems at its level