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Lip Sync: Does Your Video Match Your Audio?

The Practical Leader

A participant told me later that last year’s conference required everyone to travel on Sunday to attend the Monday morning kickoff. Managers produce team and organization vision, values, and mission statements without having clarified and aligned their own personal preferred future, principles, and purpose.

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A Manifesto’s Unbridled Power

In the CEO Afterlife

We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in deep collaboration and cross pollination in order to innovate in a way others cannot.

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A Manifesto’s Unbridled Power

LDRLB

We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in deep collaboration and cross pollination in order to innovate in a way others cannot.

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Leaders as Map Makers

CO2

As a leader, you use words (mission statement, vision, strategic plans, and models) to help members of your organization negotiate the territory in front of them—to get where you want them and the organization to go. The following story illustrates the importance of participation and buy-in, as it relates both to territories and maps.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Purpose is Good. Shared Purpose is Better

Harvard Business Review

To understand the power of shared purpose, it's useful to look at the mission statements of leading companies. To be clear, I'm not equating mission statements with company purpose. Nike : To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *"If Notice how you respond to each statement.

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Managing Performance When It’s Hard to Measure

Harvard Business Review

That’s not a system that promotes innovation. They are expert individual contributors who help shape the direction and priorities of Red Hat and key open source communities through their contributions and thought leadership. How do you even begin to appraise someone’s performance in these scenarios?