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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job. They define your shared belief system. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job. They define your shared belief system. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

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When do assumptions turn into limiting beliefs?

CO2

It comes from a deeply entrenched belief system that we develop throughout our life. We don’t typically hold assumptions as strongly as we hold beliefs, but the longer we hold assumptions without being disproved, the more likely they are to turn into beliefs. This is our bias. It was really a self-imposed limit.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business Review

A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. The company could not eradicate the skills and processes that continued to power its core performance engine but, at the same time, it had to enable embryonic growth ideas to forget the orthodoxies of the core.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. Fundamentally, people just do not see software as part of HP's DNA.

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Is Your Sales Organization Good or Great?

Harvard Business Review

There is no single greater influence over the success of the sales organization than how the sales leadership creates the sales culture and environment for the people who will work for them. In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. They Suspend Negative Belief Systems.