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Leadership

6 Steps to Creating a Vision

A vision describes what people in the organization collectively aspire to create and deliver to the outside world. Here’s a basic recipe for creating a vision that people commit to achieving. It works best if you adjust and flavor, as needed, for your organization.

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Leadership

How to Define Your Company Purpose

This is the first of a two part series on Defining the Company Purpose and Vision. Purpose is the springboard for an aspirational vision that galvanizes people. But company purpose receives scant attention in leadership and organizational literature. Here’s a quick primer to help you define your company’s purpose.

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Leadership

Inspirational Leaders are Focused

Relentless focus is the 4th attribute of inspirational leaders. This post shares the story of Nest founder, Tony Fadell, former Apple designer & VP, who is one relentlessly focused leader

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Women in Leadership

Debunking the Myth that Women Lack Vision

Do women lack vision? The question is raised too often. The answer is “No.” Quite to the contrary, women access and integrate more areas of the brain, more discrete intelligences, that tap logic, language, pictures, metaphors, etc. when solving problems.

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Dear Leader: Want Great People? See Great People

If you want great people working for you, people who give their best, you need to see the best in them, show them what you see and tell them how they make a difference that matters. Hold up that vision so they can see it too. Here’s how.

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Fixing the Hole in the Corporate Soul

With one ounce of boldness and two of anxiety I submitted a requested article to the editor of a business journal this past week. Why the anxiety? I used the word “soul” – not just once but twice.

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