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Organizations have but a few basic difficulties. These
difficulties just happen to masquerade behind a plethora of
facades which ensures that most perceive their number to be
legion. The apparent legion of difficulties can be distilled
down to just four areas:    • Objectives: well defined,
communicated, understood, and committed to   • Demand:
commensurate with the level of capacity of the organization   •
Capacity: adequate to meet the current and projected demands   •
Effectiveness: extent to which the organization promotes demand,
and manages capacity to respond to the demand on its journey
toward its objectives.  This list may strike you as a bit short,
so if you can think of an organizational difficulty that doesn't
fit in one of these categories please let me know and we'll see
if it really should be an addition.  The fou