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.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.
I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.
To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.
The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
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