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6.26 The NANO Roles and Responsibilities Off-Site
Meeting
I found the NANO roles and responsibilities off-site meeting to be extremely
beneficial for multiple reasons. Toward the beginning of the meeting the
Director displayed a slide containing a large circle with a number of smaller
overlapping circles within it. He referred to the larger circle as his organiza-
tion and the overlapping circles inside as the pieces of his organization many
of the leaders in the room were responsible for. He made the comment that
he did not plan to explicitly fill the “white space” within the larger circle—
the area that was part of the big organization, but outside the responsibility
of specific subgroups. Refer to Figure 6-2. He said:
Funding the last 10 percent of an organization is disproportionately high. Those
things can be more effectively filled by direction, priority, and management.
A, B, and C areas
of defined
responsibility
assigned
to leaders
at NANO
NANO
A
B
C
White
Space
Figure 6-2
“White Space” Tasks
