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Inspiring Leadership: Bringing Purpose to Life

The Practical Leader

” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career! Let purpose drive your strategy and operations. Coordinate collaboration and cooperation. Develop purpose-related metrics. Lean into and communicate your trade-offs. Translate purpose into your recruiting and onboarding efforts.

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Unleashing the Power of Sustained Growth

Skip Prichard

An Interview with Bob Lisser Achieving sustained and profitable growth is a goal for commercial entities worldwide. By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. Why is it that most people don’t know their company’s main goals?

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What Does It Take To Be A Connected Leader?

Tanveer Naseer

In terms of volume, they are the world’s largest trees and the biggest is none other than 2,300 year-old-ish General Sherman, a tree weighing over 5,400 metric tons, spanning 83 meters in height and 1,486 m³ in volume. It’s a way in which the leader can also create a fun and creative environment in which to operate.

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How Do You Define Friendship At Work?

Mike Cardus

Team members operating this way fail to see the other members as people of equal value; they see them as objects or goods to be used for their personal advancement. Once team members experience this interdependent value, cooperation usually increases. For an effective team to form, the opposite must happen.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I believe that if you want to build and sustain a truly world-class team, everyone needs a voice – but not everyone’s voice is equal.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business Review

It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. The reason?

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Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy

Harvard Business Review

Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness. It’s akin to winning a pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie,” observed a law firm associate , rejecting law firm partnership as a goal. Come back with your shield or on it,” a partner used to joke in the 1980s whenever someone in my husband’s BigLaw firm went to court.