To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small - and every interaction, every moment - will define what our company is today and what it will become tomorrow.
Interpretation
Cultivating a strong company culture is essential for entrepreneurial success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit within an organization by fostering a culture where every individual understands the significance of their contributions. It highlights how every action and interaction shapes the present and future identity of the company, encouraging a collective responsibility towards growth and excellence.
In practice
During a company-wide meeting to boost morale, this quote could inspire employees to take ownership of their roles.
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.
You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.
I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.
Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.
Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.
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