Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Knowing what''s important to the leadership of the organization and what they want to see happen allows the leadership team to focus its energy and achieve sustained high performance in taking action. Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Raise your hand if your organization has a mission statement. When I do that survey during leadership/culture presentations, almost every hand goes up. Mission statements are as common as a logo, website, or budget. Many mission statements sound like they were written by bureaucrats and lawyers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2018

She notes that often a company creates a mission statement that states what they want the business to do to create value for their stakeholders and a separate and different brand statement about what they want to be known for.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. Culture has had a bad press. No wonder that culture seems elusive, and not something you can get a grip on.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

Many put those good intentions into mission statements, strategic plans, training, and rebranding. Fad surfing in the C-suite often leads to dunking trainees in the training tank , slogans, improvement projects, marketing campaigns, motivational programs, educational fix-them efforts, etc. This is often magical thinking.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 26, 2011

We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. Apple’s is all about existing to make awesome products and operating under deep emotional principles. We’re constantly focusing on innovating.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Why Mission Statements Suck [link]. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. ” Self-assessment is never easy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Persuasion is pulling the rope and positional leadership is pushing the rope. The corporate mission statement is further clarification and definition for your dreams and vision and assures you that your goals are aimed at the right target. That means that leadership is a means to an end--the mission it serves is the end.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. It has been my consistent experience that talent is one of the most often discussed, and least effectively actioned issues at executive leadership meetings.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. Apple’s is all about existing to make awesome products and operating under deep emotional principles. We’re constantly focusing on innovating.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. Change is 90% beneficial.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. To transcend your mission statement, competition and engagement practices. What Is a Leadership Awakener? A leader as an awakener operates at the level of spirit or Higher Self. You are awakening.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Develop a mission statement. In reality, the Mission Statement is rewritten several times, as the planning process ensues. The last draft of the statement will be an executive summary of collective ideas and works of the Visioning team. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

After all, when it comes to leadership, our ability to succeed in this role involves more than just one skill set or approach, something that’s particularly evident when we consider the increasing demands and ever-changing conditions that shape and define today’s workplace environment. It hasn’t changed one iota.”

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I instantly connected with their gregariousness, love of life, and desire to learn and grow their business, but it wasn’t until some years later that I visited their operation and my suspicions were confirmed. . Much of their business relies on what they call “relationship marketing.” Keeping Clarity. You have chosen a winner!

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. They are all killer personal brand examples.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? We have a Mission Statement. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. That’s life. What are you gonna do about it? There’s too much talk about planning.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Mission statement. Seek qualified counsel. Strategic Plan.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.” Texas Roadhouse’s mission statement is “Legendary Food, Legendary Service” . Being involved, visiting stores, getting ideas— that is my main job.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

To understand the power of shared purpose, it's useful to look at the mission statements of leading companies. To be clear, I'm not equating mission statements with company purpose. Again, mission statements don't always reflect a company's true purpose. It is a purpose that is achieved with its customers.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. One most often hears inflated misrepresentations, false perceptions and over-statements via such contexts as: Corporate image spots that appear on TV news shows.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. This declaration is not just a nice statement; you actually have to live it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

But often missing from a firm's communications is something absolutely fundamental to its operations: its values. That has direct and indirect effects on the economy, which is made all the worse by rising fears of a double-dip recession and angst over the state of global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

The team is the company’s raw DNA, the purpose their religion, and culture their unique way of operating based on common principles, norms, and values. This is about mission, not marketing. In an authentic and strong culture this applies not only to the leadership team, but every single employee.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The goal is not just winning, but playing attractive soccer that excites fans, qualifying for the Champions League, sending as many players as possible to the World Cup, making every kid in the region proud of the team… A club’s mission statement is quite likely to include concepts such as pride, enthusiasm, and player development.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The goal is not just winning, but playing attractive soccer that excites fans, qualifying for the Champions League, sending as many players as possible to the World Cup, making every kid in the region proud of the team… A club’s mission statement is quite likely to include concepts such as pride, enthusiasm, and player development.

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