Teams are rising in the rankings, teams are falling in the rankings, with the range of improvement still large. This suggests that not all teams are as disciplined as they could be.
The tutorial helps guide teams on their decisions and deals with the mechanics and the calculations and the relationships between the various factors. These must be understood. Too many for each team member to understand them all, but with tasks allocated amongst each team member, they should have clearly defined responsibilities. The players must be an expert in their area of responsibility. In other words the team member is an individual specialist. The individual team member needs to understand all aspects of the input to the decisions for which they are responsible.
At the Board meeting, when taking decisions, the players need to present clear proposals with good sound reasoning, which the Board needs to synthesise. The CEO and Board should interrogate each player to test that their recommendations are soundly based and have not been arrived at on a casual basis. In this way, the quality of each suggested decision is tested.
The eventual decisions may well be compromises. The test is the common good not an individual's own position. This is teamwork in action. This all requires leadership. The question raised before is whether your leadership is strong enough to ensure that each team member is making a good contribution, is teamwork actually happening, is each decision interrogated and tested, are the final decisions sound and well understood. These are the key lessons from the MERIT experience: disciplined decision making; teamwork and leadership, they all go together. Anything less will not succeed, and could make it a rocky road ahead.