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Quotes About Alignment

But organizational clarity is not merely about choosing the right words to describe a company's mission, strategy, or values; it is about agreeing on the fundamental concepts that drive it.
~ Patrick Lencioni
An organization that has achieved clarity has a sense of unity around everything it does. It aligns its resources, especially the human ones, around common concepts, values, definitions, goals, and strategies, thereby realizing the synergies that all great companies must achieve.
~ Patrick Lencioni
When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.
~ Patrick Lencioni
they need to weigh in before they can really buy in.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Once we achieve clarity and buy-in, it is then that we have to hold each other accountable for what we sign up to do, for high standards of performance and behavior.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Within companies that effectively over-communicate, employees at all levels and in all departments understand what the organization is about and how they contribute to its success. They don't spend time speculating on what executives are really thinking, and they don't look for hidden messages among the information they receive.
~ Patrick Lencioni
small gaps between executives high up in an organization become major discrepancies by the time they reach employees below
~ Patrick Lencioni
an organization that has properly identified its values and adheres to them will naturally attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones.
~ Patrick Lencioni
DISCIPLINE FOUR: REINFORCE ORGANIZATIONAL CLARITY THROUGH HUMAN SYSTEMS.
~ Patrick Lencioni
When people come together and set aside their individual needs for the good of the whole, they can accomplish what might have looked impossible on paper. They do this by eliminating the politics and confusion that plague most organizations. As a result, they get more done in less time and with less cost.
~ Patrick Lencioni
BE COHESIVE. BE CLEAR. OVER-COMMUNICATE. REINFORCE.
~ Patrick Lencioni
More than anything else, cohesive teams are efficient. They arrive at decisions more quickly and with greater buy-in than non-cohesive teams do.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Once a leadership team has become cohesive and worked to establish clarity and alignment around the answers to the six critical questions, then, and only then, can they effectively move on to the next step: communicating those answers. Or better yet, overcommunicating those answers—over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
~ Patrick Lencioni
God likes his women with a firm will that aligns with his will. Strong, courageous women who get in line with the will of God are destined to change their corner of the world.
~ Unknown
Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself, not at odds with it.
~ Unknown
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics"- Darryl Anka (Bashar) [25]
~ Unknown
When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.
~ Paulo Coelho
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
~ Paulo Coelho
It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.
~ Paulo Coelho
when you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
~ Paulo Coelho
important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other
~ Paulo Coelho
When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Cuando quieres algo, todo el Universo conspira para que realices tu deseo.
~ Paulo Coelho
A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow-string; A deed without a prayer is a bow-string without an arrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
~ Paulo Coelho