Become Quote by Douglas Conant

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

— Margaret Hamburg

We have to have a commonality and purpose. We have to understand that each of us is dependent on the success of the others…

— Rick Welts

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity:…

— Margaret Heffernan

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

— Howard Schultz

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is…

— Tom Rath

My suggestion is that if you need someone outside your company to prepare a mission statement for you, then you really don't know what…

— Herb Kelleher

When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than…

— Marc Benioff

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they…

— Abigail Johnson

The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people…

— Judith M Bardwick

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

— Vince Lombardi

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out…

— Ken Blanchard