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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

Lead Change Blog

The same is true for your leadership career. In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I offer four questions to help you build your leadership foundation: Vision: Where are you going? Mission: What are you doing to get there? Yogi was right.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It’s important to understand that vision statements are design oriented, while mission statements are execution oriented. In fact, it is the corporate vision that should determine its mission. The vision is bigger picture and future oriented, while the mission is more immediately focused on the present.

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10 Essential Steps To Leadership Excellence

Terry Starbucker

Set the Mantra – Great leaders need a mantra – that is, some key phrase or sentence that is transferred to the lips and hearts of all they lead (notice I didn’t call this a “mission statement”).

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Drinking the Talent Kool-Aid | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer In Pursuit Of “Customer Delight”: Getting The Basics Right A lot of companies have the phrase “delighting our customers” in their well-crafted mission statements and quality policies. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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How Values Change Everything

Leading in Context

Values shape your life, leadership, career and relationships. By Linda Fisher Thornton of values as a critical element in enabling and focusing individual and collective success.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

Why Mission Statements Suck [link]. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education.

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