The Practical Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Raise your hand if your organization has a mission statement. When I do that survey during leadership/culture presentations, almost every hand goes up. Mission statements are as common as a logo, website, or budget. Many mission statements sound like they were written by bureaucrats and lawyers.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I’ve been fortunate enough over the course of my 34-year career to have arrived at what I call the leadership summit – a high place of great business success and personal satisfaction, and a fulfilling culmination of years of effort, determination, and dedication. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. You’re a new manager, and you’d better fit in! Could culture really be this concrete?

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

Many put those good intentions into mission statements, strategic plans, training, and rebranding. Too many of these initiatives have a limited scope and are disconnected from daily operations. This chart shows a few key differences between a narrow and management-based approach and a systemic or leadership-based approach.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Create a personal mission statement. As a leader is it important to have a personal sense of mission crafted into something you can reflect on daily and measure your performance against.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Here’s a collection of the best blog posts over the last month written by top leadership bloggers. Thanks to Dan McCarthy over at Great Leadership for organizing it. Welcome to the November 7, 2010, early bird edition of leadership development carnival! Simmons gives us Power: The Heart Of Leadership | Bret L. .&#

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. The pressure to create deep and inspiring purpose statements often leads organizations to produce messages that have little to do with the nature or scope of their business. .

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. Narrow your focus The pressure to create deep and inspiring purpose statements often leads organizations to produce messages that have little to do with the nature or scope of their business.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

As an entrepreneur, if your business is struggling or your budget is tight, you might be tempted to make some compromises when it comes to your operations and the future of your company. When you opened your business, you may have created a mission statement that listed all of your values and which you used to promote your business.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Why Mission Statements Suck [link]. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link].

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees. With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. It helps to manage relations with stakeholders. Change is 90% beneficial.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Don’t spend days on mission statements; don’t start with goals in strategy work.” Avoid the bright, shiny distractions that abound.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Walk into an organization and ask to see their strategy and you will likely be given a one-line “mission” statement and a document filled with words and diagrams. Some years ago, I worked with a company that was on a sustained journey to improve safety in its operation. As a strategy statement, it couldn’t be clearer.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Vision, values, and mission statements abound with warm words about its importance. Only the most twisted executive or manager wants to hurt anyone. And when it happens, managers and executives will often look for ways to blame the worker for their unhealthy lifestyles or unsafe work practices. Everyone is in favor of it.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Akash Tripathi is a Content Marketing Manager at Top Mobile Tech. It is important to have these answers before starting a small business. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. Develop a mission statement. In reality, the Mission Statement is rewritten several times, as the planning process ensues.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 28, 2015

I have a deep respect for the leadership and teamwork embodied by Navy SEALS, Olympic athletic teams, and firefighters. That's why I find the new book, Light A Fire Under Your Business: How to Build a Class 1 Corporate Culture Through Inspirational Leadership , so interesting. The stories they tell in the book are actual experiences.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

After all, when it comes to leadership, our ability to succeed in this role involves more than just one skill set or approach, something that’s particularly evident when we consider the increasing demands and ever-changing conditions that shape and define today’s workplace environment.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.” Now the manager gets free food, too. . The Beginning.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2018

For this reason, any business should take the time to really think about what their company culture is and how to ensure it’s pervasive throughout their business operations and employee behavior. A company’s culture says a lot about who they are, what they value, and what their beliefs are.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. They are all killer personal brand examples.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Knowing what''s important to the leadership of the organization and what they want to see happen allows the leadership team to focus its energy and achieve sustained high performance in taking action. Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2019

We’ve always run a pretty lean operation, in part because we didn’t have a lot of excess funds to fuel unrestrained expansion. While my friends were out partying, I was waking up at 4 a.m. and working 16, 17, 18 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But what about the kinds of jobs where measuring someone’s “output” isn’t about counting the number of widgets they produced, but rather it’s about how they managed a team or influenced others or helped people collaborate better? Second, managers focus on opportunities, not score-keeping.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

To define the "how," we used the Campbell Leadership Model , which highlighted six expectations we had for every employee. As George realized, the lofty slogan and mission statement posted on a company's wall isn't enough. This declaration is not just a nice statement; you actually have to live it. Be Consistent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

But often missing from a firm's communications is something absolutely fundamental to its operations: its values. to accusations over the company's values and the efficacy of its leadership. Establish core values across the company, not just within management. If management sets values, who would own them?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Managers often decide that the real issue for employees is how much money they make. Most employees are not coin-operated, and more money does not lead to more engagement. Take the statement “I can get my job done efficiently, without excess bureaucracy.” It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

That single sentence captures the greatest challenge that executives and managers face today: keeping their people and their organizations centered on what matters most. we see people digging into their wallets for the latest mission statement. Our good friend, Claude Roessiger has long experience with luxury brand management.

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