The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

This was an ongoing theme for their last few annual conferences. A participant told me later that last year’s conference required everyone to travel on Sunday to attend the Monday morning kickoff. For example, a manager once hired me to speak to their organization about the work-life balance themes in Growing the Distance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2017

To share a compelling vision … it’s not about the mission statement poster hanging in the conference room. To show appreciation … it’s not about award ceremonies—the winners’ circle is always too small. It’s about saying thank you in sincere ways all throughout the year.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

When I do presentations at seminars and conferences, I always use a PowerPoint slide to explain what Servant Leadership isn’t, which means it is not servile behavior. At Mukilteo School District, I asked my custodial leadership for examples of a vision statement we could adopt for Custodial Services.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Its staff of five provides and coordinates opportunities for employees to participate in pizza luncheons, men’s and women’s luncheon, banquets, golf tournaments, Family Life conferences, and summer camps. His office will send newly married employees to family life conferences and pick up half the tab.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

One of the things that I enjoy about speaking at conferences and at various organizations is the opportunity to meet new people. Being able to spend time with these good friends was certainly one of my personal highlights from this conference. Not in the sense of being deep philosophical or moral examinations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Sharlyn Lauby serves up another round of wisdom with Developing Your Mission Statement posted at hr bartender , saying, “Managers need to be involved in creating and evaluating the company mission. posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “How much “truth&# can you handle?&#.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Now that is is a great mission statement! Now that is is a great mission statement! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. Why You Should Check it Out and Subscribe: There is no shortage of business news and information to be found online.  Smartbrief on Leadership solves this problem.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . Texas Roadhouse’s mission statement is “Legendary Food, Legendary Service” . Taylor often talks about how important it is to be available and not to be a leader you only meet once a year at a conference.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 19, 2010

Sitting near the middle of a conference table brings you more clicking opportunities , as well. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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The Idolbuster

MAY 31, 2012

I met Coach Teresa at the San Francisco Writers Conference in the session “ Writing a Tagline That Will Sell You and Your Book that she co-taught with Elisa Sasa Southard. Teaching at San Francisco Writers Conference every year gives me the joy of seeing colleagues and meeting other fascinating writers, one of whom being Greg Marcus.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The first day of the conference, customer service guru and Zappos chief Tony Hsieh gave his spiel about Zappos being a service company that just happened to sell shoes. We got his book, Delivering Happiness , free in our conference bags. This is the story of how I learned the key to great customer service. It was so simple.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. About the Authors Ed Hughes is a SAS Product Manager and frequently published SAS Institute author and conference presenter.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I've done this dozens of times at conferences and with few exceptions roughly 2% of people in a crowded room can stand up and recite their company mission. A mission, when applied effectively, is nothing more than a definitive organizational identity statement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

He had planned to read the company’s new mission statement aloud as a way of reinforcing its renewed focus. As part of his effort to get developers at Apple to transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, Steve Jobs held a mock funeral at the 2002 Worldwide Developers Conference. Sometimes, a dose of levity can help.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Most companies have a stated corporate purpose or mission statement. Our leaders’ job is to create context by connecting our associates’ job functions to the organization’s broader mission, why we do what we do. Give your people the autonomy to do the work that interests them. Share context.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

If most organizations were honest with themselves, she argues, their mission statements would read, "Acme Widgets: We're no worse than anybody else.". Recently, at a conference of marketers and brand specialists, I learned about a fast-growing company called Kulula Airlines, sort of the Southwest of South Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Soon after arriving at PBS, I called the digital team into a conference room and announced we were ripping up everyone’s annual performance goals and adding a new metric. We went radical by re-casting our team’s mission statement into two words: Reinvent PBS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

And no sector is complete without its own conference. What, you didn't read the mission statement?) Lisa Gansky , in her new book The Mesh , provides a forty-page list of organizations designed for resource sharing. The startup sector has its own growing newspaper (online, of course): Xconomy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

“The way you fire people needs to reflect the words you have in your mission statement.” She gathered the team together in the company’s conference room and spoke in a “direct and matter-of-fact” way. .” All of your employees and customers are going to be watching how you handle the process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. It comes back to our mission statement. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. Asset valuations in our league have really grown over the years. For example, Steve Ballmer just bought the L.A.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lightly etched into the glass doors of an executive conference room, the mission statement was virtually unnoticeable and inaccessible. The company’s mission, vision, and values were lost on employees and leadership alike. After several days into the search, the mystery was solved.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lightly etched into the glass doors of an executive conference room, the mission statement was virtually unnoticeable and inaccessible. The company’s mission, vision, and values were lost on employees and leadership alike. . After several days into the search, the mystery was solved. Align reward systems with purpose.

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