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What's Your Mission? by John Pineau, MCP
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Friday, 27 January 2012 11:49

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A colleague asked me a question the other day.  He asked me what my company’s mission was.  I couldn’t answer him, properly.  I realized that we were doing this work for our clients but we hadn’t taken the time to do it for OZZ.

 

Which begs the question:

How can you achieve success if you don’t know what success is – what it looks like, and with that in mind, how can you achieve success if you don’t know where you’re headed?

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350 Billion Reasons Corporations Should Care - by John Pineau, MCP
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011 11:08

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Leaders maximize profit by delivering focused corporate visions stakeholders can believe.  But in the new economy, inspiring stakeholders is not an easy thing to do.  According to Deepak Chopra, in an ABC interview regarding his new book, the Soul of Leadership, approximately 11% of U.S. workers are engaged in their work, 61% are somewhat engagedand as many as 27% are completely disengaged (who come to work to make other people unhappy).  These disengaged groups, according to Chopra, costs the US economy $350 billion.

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The Customer Is Always Third? - by John Pineau, MCP
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 14:32

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I’ve always believed that the customer is first, but I’d have to say that based on stories I’ve been hearing lately I’m not sure this is the case.

While on recent business trips to London, UK and Dublin, Ireland, and earlier in the summer to Toronto, I hooked up with new and old colleagues who work for well-known companies.  The theme across the board was fairly bleak, people telling me horror stories regarding their jobs in today’s world.  A colleague in London told me how everyone in the company he works for is stressed to the max because of its poor top-end performance.  People are working fourteen-hour days to stay afloat.  They’re unhappy.  Morale is down.  “It’s no fun working in the corporate world any more,” he explained.  “All the good people are leaving - everybody’s constantly on the hunt for something better, and the minute it comes along they’re gone.”


 

 

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Aligning the Octopus / How Comprehensive Thinking Solves Business Problems - by John Pineau, MCP
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:00

You’re the boss.  You’ve made it to the big time.  You’ve worked extremely hard to get here.  On a day-to-day basis everything is moving along okay but economic uncertainty has you and everyone around you worried.  There have been a few sleepless nights.  Come to think of it, there have been several actually.

Experts talk about a second wave.  You wonder if people are overreacting, or if there is some credence to what they say.  People shrug it off, assuming that it won’t affect them.  While they assure you that everything will be okay the look in their faces tells you otherwise.  There’s worry there.  Just like there is with you.  You talk positively to the troops because you know how important it is for them to see you happy.  They rely on you to keep them that way.  You do your best.

 

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Truth and Business / What's Yours? - by John Pineau, MCP
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:00

What’s your definition of Truth?

It’s not easy is it?  Truth is just one of those words that leaves us lost in thought when we really try to define it.  It’s one of those words that can mean so many things.  According to Wikipedia the word Truth can mean religion, literature, popular culture, music, newspapers, and several publications.

Truth is a very diverse word.  It’s really the essence of everything.  It’s the essence of life.


Over the past generation, Truth has been a very flexible word when it comes to operating our institutions, our businesses.  From Enron to Bernie Madoff to Tiger Woods, the word Truth had been completely redefined, at least until they got caught.

 

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