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If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

Bill Capodagli

The key is to make sure you are doing the “right things” before you worry about doing things “right”.
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Keys Right Thing Worry
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
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Heart People Stories
In the best organizations, love is the real “pixie dust.”
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Dust Love Real
When values are deeply embedded within an organization, they seldom change.
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Embedded Organization Values
Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt’s alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!
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Character Ego Littles
Social media can work to a CEO’s advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace.
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Media Middle Nowhere World
The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational “Dream” or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.
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Creativity Dream Organization
The two critical questions to ask are: “Who is my customer?” and “What value am I adding?” Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.
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Answers Habit Two
Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.
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Behavior Belief Organization
My mother’s work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.
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Attitude Book Mother
Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
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Failure Learn Success
An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.
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Become Ideas Tangible
Write down your Dream or story; create your own unique Values, Believe in them, and use them to make all decisions; Dare to take some risks; and Do the planning, revisions and details to realize the Dream.
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Believe Dare Dream Take Write
In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.
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Changing People Retail Speak Year
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
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Cost Long Running
There is an old Indian saying, “When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness.” Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.
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Dream Greatness Organization

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