Words of Wisdom from Great Leaders
Over the years, we have developed strong friendships with leaders around the globe. That is one of the most pleasurable aspects of our business. In an effort to share their knowledge and advice with other leaders - current and future, we asked them a simple question:
"What's the best piece of advice you could offer corporate leaders to increase productivity and business results within their organization?"
Here are some of the responses we received:
Gurminder Bedi
VP North American Truck/Ford Motor Co. (retired)
"People have a way to astound you with their accomplishments and achievements if they believe in you, and you encourage them and support them to create a new reality and to achieve goals never before thought to be possible."
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Dan Morris
President, Mazda Europe
"Unite and solidify your people, teams, departments and organization into cohesive, high performing working groups aligned around the accomplishment of simple, tangible and achievable objectives......provide them the necessary resources and freedom to achieve...and as successes are achieved, celebrate them!"
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Richard Appeldoorn
Plant Manager, Schering Plough Corporation
"It's all about getting the support of everyone in the organization. As leaders, we need to set clear goals and objectives. The hard part is to get buy-in and focus from every person and level in the organization. Pathways has helped us achieve that. Then, as leaders, we need to get out of the way and allow the organization to deliver results. "
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Robert Grieve
CEO Heska Corporation
"Hire great people who share your vision and principles, create a culture that values teamwork and, very importantly, keep everyone involved in supporting the constructive changes that are so essential to a dynamic business environment."
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Renee Franklin
VP Human Resources, Colgate Palmolive
"To increase productivity it is important to find the unique
talents that each team member brings and play to those strengths. The next
thing to do is then compose a team of complimentary talents so that the
results of the team surpass the results of each of the members as
individuals. Lastly, you must create an environment that is healthy which
enables the people and the team to excel."
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Brent Golden
VP of Sales John Paul Mitchell Systems
"I have two rules I live by 1) Help create an environment where people feel good about where they work. You get the most out of an employee who day after day feels good about the work they do and the people they do it for. Pathways gives you the tools to help create that environment. 2) The key to motivating anyone is helping them see or find the value in what they need to get done."
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