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Learn to Build Goals from the Bottom Up

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learning how to build goals from the bottom up connects individuals to the broader mission. In addition to building your goals from the top-down, a useful exercise is to build goals from the bottom-up. For bottom-up goals, start with what the team thinks they can commit to.

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Where to Focus for Peak Performance with Sunjay Nath

Let's Grow Leaders

23:17 The top 10% and bottom 10% is not an assessment of the character of the person. If the criteria you are focusing on change, the top 10% and bottom 10% can swap very quickly. 38:36 When you focus on the bottom 10%, you’re focusing on a person who does not want to be there.

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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

Leading Blog

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance.

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Culture is the Way: 5 Steps to Building a World-Class Culture

Leading Blog

Any goal worth achieving, whether it’s a personal goal, a professional aspiration, or building a great workplace culture, requires a delicate balance of tenacity and extraordinary patience.” Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.”

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Ready, Set, GOals!

Women on Business

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. Add into the mix, the approaching season of resolutions and goal-setting, and suddenly 3, 6 & 9—all divisors of 12 and standard monthly intervals—popped into my head. From there it was an instantaneous leap to thinking about business goals for the coming year.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first. But what does this mean?

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