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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

Lead Change Blog

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? The same is true for your leadership career. Values: How will you act along the way?

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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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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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Success vs. Significance | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

At first it was an unconscious sense of it, but some years back, after spending several months doing an exercise from Stephen Covey on designing a personal mission statement, that purpose became conscious. I write about the importance of that purpose for one's success and satisfaction on my blog this month (www.empireofhope.com).

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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

Logistics companies provide support services such as transportation planning, inventory management, and order fulfillment. Secure financing. Once you have determined the type of specific trucking business and the scope of your actual services, the next step is to secure financing.

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Five Productivity Mistakes for Entrepreneurs to Avoid

Strategy Driven

This seems obvious, but many entrepreneurs fall into this trap, obsessing over things like the corporate logo, mission statement, team happy hours, office space, employee complaints, or many other things that don’t usually produce tangible results for the business.

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How To Create An Effective Business Strategy

Strategy Driven

Just like the vision, having a mission defines the organization’s purpose, but it also outlines its primary objectives. Write a mission statement that focuses on what needs to be done in the short term to realize the long term vision. For the mission statement, you’ll want to ask the questions: What do we do?