{"id":3634,"date":"2025-10-07T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headtohead.ch\/when-the-compass-needle-goes-wild\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:01:30","slug":"when-the-compass-needle-goes-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headtohead.ch\/en\/when-the-compass-needle-goes-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"When the compass needle goes wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3634\" class=\"elementor elementor-3634 elementor-3627\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36dcea06 cspt-col-stretched-none cspt-bg-color-over-image elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36dcea06\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a0569d7 cspt-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"6a0569d7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32f90109 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32f90109\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Have you ever watched a compass needle spin wildly during a storm?<br><\/strong><br>That\u2019s exactly what happens to strategy in most organizations during disruption. The needle goes frantic\u2014not because the compass is broken, but because leadership has lost its true North. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yet the experience from years working with leaders navigating poly-crisis moments: shows that the problem isn\u2019t usually a crazy needle. It\u2019s the absence of a compass altogether. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This article from our senior expert Marco Mancesti explores the very first, and arguably most critical, integrity from the Disruption-Fit Maturity Scale\u2122\ufe0f*: <b>The Integrity of Intention. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">* The disruption-Fit\u2122\ufe0fMaturity Scale is the model that we use at headtohead to conduct our organizational and leadership diagnostics<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea70a66 cspt-btn-shape-round elementor-align-left cspt-btn-color-globalcolor cspt-btn-style-flat elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"ea70a66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/when-compass-needle-goes-wild-marco-mancesti-vzr9e\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read more here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever watched a compass needle spin wildly during a storm?That\u2019s exactly what happens to strategy in most organizations during disruption. 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