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Purpose Must be a Priority

Great Leadership By Dan

Communicating purpose will take more than requiring your team to memorize the company mission statement, however. About the Author: Jeremy Kingsley is a professional speaker, best-selling author, and the President of OneLife Leadership. It will influence decisions made at the top and choices made by the “lowliest” employee.

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Organization Culture is a Reflection

QAspire

Trying to change an organization’s culture only through narratives (tall mission statements, values on the wall and lip service) is like trying to change the reflection in the mirror. – – – – – In the Photo: Mountains at the Dawn, Jhadol, Rajasthan, India (2013). It doesn’t happen.

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A different kind of thanks. Yours.

Strategy Driven

My bet is your ‘thank you’ is somewhat like your mission statement. Most employees, even executives, can’t recite their own mission statement, even under penalty of death.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Leadership words that need to be banned. All rights reserved.

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Todd Durkin on Leadership & People

Leading Blog

Durkin brings servant leadership to all that he does. His WOW chapter titled Leadership and People is on–target. On this one particular evening in 2013, I had the opportunity to hear him speak to a few hundred fitness trainers/pros at a Perform Better conference in Providence, Rhode Island. In any sport. And he was awesome!

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Envisioning Green: An Extraordinary Small Business

Mark Sanborn

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . I cannot begin to express how impressed I am with Patrick‘s ability to carry out your organizations mission statement.

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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

Executive leadership has your back. We went radical by re-casting our team’s mission statement into two words: Reinvent PBS. In each of the first seven months of 2013, PBS.org topped ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox as the most-visited network TV site, according to comScore. The idea was to deliver a clear message: Move fast.

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