Quotes About Alignment

What you do with your hands you mess up with your feet.

If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than in here.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

If you align your thoughts and your desires underneath His comprehensive rule over every area of your life, you will walk in peace. He will calm your heart and your mind by giving you peace.

it's possible to do the work of God without doing the work God has called you to do.

Friends and colleagues with the same chosen shortlist usually agree and co-operate but rarely ever with others.

There is a way that things should he. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, there's something wrong with me (the interpreter of events), with them (other people), or with it (anything in the world).

There is a way that things should be. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, something is wrong with you, them, or it.

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

Shift your focus of attention from what you are doing to the way you are being. Specifically: Are you being the "invented future and context" that you created, or are you being "right," dominating and avoiding domination, and justifying the way you are?

Everything is as it should be.

most of a leadership team's objectives should be collective ones.

there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

fundamental values are not chosen from thin air based on the desires of executives; they are discovered within what already exists in an organization.

Most organizations I've worked with have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed.

few groups of leaders actually work like a team, at least not the kind that is required to lead a healthy organization.

I think we need to start having a Headline News every day, for five minutes. We could call it a Daily Check-in or something. That means we should get together in a conference room, standing up, and just announce what we're all doing.

Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success.

Second, and this is certainly related, those executives don't see the company's reason for existing as having any practical implications for the way they make decisions and run the organization.

At its core, organizational health is about integrity, but not in the ethical or moral way that integrity is defined so often today. An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

when we fail to get clarity and alignment during meetings, we set in motion a colossal wave of human activity as executives and their direct reports scramble to figure out what everyone else is doing and why.

During the Weekly Tactical, there are two overriding goals: resolution of issues and reinforcement of clarity. Obstacles need to be identified and removed, and everyone needs to be on the same page.