Quotes About Alignment

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.

The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything work together, you just don't get that. But maybe there's a way to do it.

There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don't want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.

You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.

I make a habit of asking myself, 'Is there purpose to this meeting or conversation? Do I want to build a relationship with this person or company? Is there purpose behind this meeting that aligns with my life and business strategy?' If the answer is 'No,' then I pass every time.

It's very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business - what we aspire to - and a strategy for achieving it.

Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier.

We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.

The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves.

God's given me a gift to be able to put people in the right position, where their strengths are!

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?

Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

We find our vocational sweet spot when our creativity is most unleashed, our passions most engaged, and our work makes the greatest contribution to advancing the mission of the organization or the business where we serve.

The Alignment