The most powerful, most expensive, and fastest car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It has a proven top speed of over 400 km/h or 253 mph. The cost? If you have to ask you probably can’t afford it :-). If you must know it’s over US$1.7 million.
Imagine that you won this car in a raffle. You are very happy. You are feeling the power of this awesome machine. Imagine further that upon delivery, you realized that all four wheels are pointed in different directions. You were depending on this vehicle to take you to a most important function and it’s the only vehicle available. What a disaster! You are now wishing you had instead won a mere Toyota Corolla that had all four wheels oriented in the same direction.
All rational thinking humans understand the need for all the wheels to be going in the same direction if you want to move forward. This is generally understood in business as getting all team members to “row in the same direction.”
I am extremely frustrated. While I did not win a Bugati with the wheels pointing in different directions, I see a powerful machine—the KC community—that is in a similar condition.
KC has a board of governors, a school administration, a PTA and an Old Boys' Association. These are our four wheels. You guessed it. They are not all pointed in the same direction.
We really do have a Bugati. But who will fix the wheels?
