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Culture is the Way: 5 Steps to Building a World-Class Culture

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Any goal worth achieving, whether it’s a personal goal, a professional aspiration, or building a great workplace culture, requires a delicate balance of tenacity and extraordinary patience.” Step Four: Drive Long-Term Impact Creating a sustainable culture “demands unwavering fanaticism to the ongoing process and journey.”

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Ditch Lofty Outcome Goals and “Hit the Glove!”

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We may feel exhilarated when we set a big goal, but that soon gives way to anxiety. While we all want to get better, lofty goals don’t always help. There is a way to set goals and achieve them. He did it by getting his pitchers to scale back their goals from lofty to bite-sized, from outcome to process. How It Translates.

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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

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The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. If you do, you’ll find that over time the short-term results will begin to take care of themselves.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

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The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. We need to start playing The Long Game.

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Leading Thoughts for April 1, 2021

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Paul Zak on how fear-based leadership undermines our goals and dumbs us down: “The science shows that fear-based management is a losing proposition because people acclimate to fear quickly. Fear is a fine short-term motivator but a poor long-term one.

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How to Hold onto Your Customers in a Crisis

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I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. They are letting short-term financial objectives become the North Star in an effort to keep the lights on. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

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Venkataraman offers countless examples of how individuals and organizations have defied instant gratification and instead taken the long view. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’ It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term.

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