Tactics to Make Your Business a Networked Organization, Part 2

In contrast, roles are defined by what value they contribute. The organizational direction is: “Here’s the role we want you to play. Here’s what we expect of that role. Here are the value outputs required of that role. Yet, how you play that role is up to you.”

The evaluation question is: How effectively are you playing the role overall? We all have tasks that we do well and not so well. If you can’t add, for example, you get somebody else to do it for you, but you can still play a role of analyst very well.