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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? But the majority of organizations seems to muddle through, now and then halfheartedly embarking on a culture project where they define their core values, vision, and mission statement – and then return to business as usual.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

Starting with the challenge defuses attempts to make favorite projects and goals the center of discussion. Don’t spend days on mission statements; don’t start with goals in strategy work.” If the only problem was motivation, this would work well, but when facing actual challenges, it is grossly insufficient. Richard Rumelt.

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The 8 Elements of Punk Rock Business

Leading Blog

The title of Jeremy Dale’s book, The Punk Rock of Business , comes from a comment Bono made to Oprah about a project Dale was working on with him for Motorola. An organization’s mission statement is meant to direct every single decision. A mission statement may not be enough. I hate mediocrity.