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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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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. He is the author of four books, his latest: Inspired People Produce Results – (McGraw Hill 2013). If you don’t know the purpose of your efforts, you certainly won’t be able to inspire your team to success.

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How to Create a Culture of Innovation

LDRLB

It became one of the Magazine’s most popular articles of 2013. Get symbolic – Understand that mission statements, awards, stories of successes and failures, posters in the hallways, catch phrases, and acronyms all shape culture. Why such keen interest in this topic?

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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. is your way of saying, I have nothing new to say. All rights reserved.

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Todd Durkin on Leadership & People

Leading Blog

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. Think about what Ford says in its MISSION statement: “Our PEOPLE are the source of our strength.” And he was a three-time NFL Coach of the Year.

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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

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. Incremental because, well, we didn’t want to get fired.

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