If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.
Interpretation
To create a strong corporate culture, leaders must establish their own definitions of culture collaboratively with their team.
This quote emphasizes the importance of defining corporate culture in a way that aligns with the values and goals of the organization, highlighting the need for collaboration between leaders and their teams. By involving employees in the definition of culture, organizations can foster a sense of ownership and commitment, which can drive greatness in their culture and overall performance.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing effective strategies for team building.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.
The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
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