Category: Vision
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#87: Do we know each other well enough to cry together?
You want everyone to give you their best effort AND work as a team, right? Of course you do. That’s why you’ve probably worked hard to develop your company mission/vision statement – to create a purpose, explain your ‘why’ and give people a feeling that they are part of something. Then you spent even more…
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#75: Should we be more impractical?
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” So much to think about in this quote from Cecil Beaton – described on Wikipedia as a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter,…
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#70: What’s the most valuable thing I learned today?
Ever wonder how some people can consistently accomplish so much more than others? I know I have. Take Elon Musk for example. He goes from one success to another in completely separate industries, while hardly missing a beat. He’s revolutionized banking, clean energy, robotics, electric cars, space exploration, AI, brain interfaces, and more. And yet,…
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#64: Have we revisited our boneyard recently?
In your business career, how many new ideas for products, services, improvements, etc. have you had that should have worked … but didn’t? My guess is it’s a very large number. Is that a fair assumption? If so, is it also fair to say that once they ‘failed’ – you cut your losses and sent…
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#55: Do we have ‘esprit de corps’?
The dictionary describes ‘esprit de corps’ as the common spirit existing in the members of a group and inspiring enthusiasm, devotion, and strong regard for the honor of the group. Military units worldwide have ‘esprit de corps’. It’s usually summed up in a few words with a ‘motto’ – which the dictionary defines as ‘a…