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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. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. 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. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. They define your shared belief system. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

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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. By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses.

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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.