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Inspiring Purpose

Inspiring Purpose

by Mike Henry on June 13, 2010 in Leadership Development, Value Creation

Nothing puts air in our sails like a noble purpose. But many of us work for businesses where our focus is to simply outperform last quarter. If you can’t manage your purpose, you can still inspire your co-workers. When you bring the best of who you are to the job or the project or the [...]

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Meaningful Contribution

by Mike Henry on May 21, 2009 in Leadership Development, Value Creation

In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, he asserted that employees wanted to know their work was meaningful. He called the sign Irrelevance. People want to know that their work is important. But, more than that, they also need to know how it’s important and to whom. How does their contribution [...]

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Personal Value Creation

by Mike Henry on May 1, 2009 in Value Creation

Are you a producer or a consumer?  Do you evaluate your own output? You can read much today about your personal brand.  It’s no accident.  The Internet, rather than revolutionizing marketing, is institutionalizing it.  Not only must we market our companies and our products or services, we are each individually something that must be represented, [...]

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