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Purpose Must be a Priority

Great Leadership By Dan

If you don’t know the purpose of your efforts, you certainly won’t be able to inspire your team to success. 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).

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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? The soft stuff truly is the hard stuff.

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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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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. . Both Erika and Steven understand the power of clarity in their company: “Clarity to us is like success,” they agree. The difference?

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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, we redefined success. 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. ” Crucially, we delivered business results.

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