Quotes About Alignment

Getting Started Aligning an organization is like preparing for a long sailing trip. First, you need to be clear on whether your destination (the mission and goals) and your route (the strategy) are the right ones.

Once you've figured out the "who" side of the equation, you'll need to focus on the "what." What agendas are key stakeholders most interested in pursuing? How do their interests line up with your own, and where are they in conflict? Why are these stakeholders pursuing these agendas?

You therefore should start right away to identify those whose support is essential for your success, and to figure out how to line them up on your side.

To overcome these barriers and succeed in joining a new company, you should focus on four pillars of effective onboarding: business orientation, stakeholder connection, alignment of expectations, and cultural adaptation.

start-up, turnaround, accelerated growth, realignment, and sustaining success. The STARS model

Whatever your own priorities, pinpoint what your boss cares about most, and aim for early wins in those areas. If you want to succeed, you need your boss's help; in turn, you should help her succeed. When you pay attention to your boss's priorities, she will feel ownership in your success. The most effective approach is to integrate your boss's goals with your own efforts to get early wins.

Expectations Alignment No matter how well you think you understand what you're expected to do, be sure to check and recheck expectations once you formally join your new organization. Why? Because understandings that are developed before you join—about mandates, support, and resources—may not prove to be fully accurate once you're in the job.

MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.

Strategy becomes the particular array of activities aligned to deliver a particular mix of value to a chosen array of customers.

Southwest's strategy involves a whole system of activities, not a collection of parts. Its competitive advantage comes from the way its activities fit and reinforce one another. Fit

When you show the universe that you are willing and ready for action, it will start directing the opportunities and the right people your way. Therefore,

If you are walking the path, the universe is walking the path with you. Often, things will just work out perfectly with little effort. It's like the universe is continuously reorganizing the world you live in so as to send the right people to you at the right time. All we have to do is be set on the path and open enough to receive these gifts.

Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

United fronts against something are always easier to maintain than coalitions for something.

Eyes directly above the target line, slightly behind the ball, to ensure you swing along the target line.

strongly recommend a slight inward knee flex, as if one were holding a volleyball between the knees, or there

A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously.

There was something curiously aligned between the Trump family and MBS. Like the entire Saudi leadership, MBS had, practically speaking, no education. In the past, this had worked to limit the Saudi options—nobody was equipped to confidently explore new intellectual possibilities. As a consequence, everybody was wary of trying to get them to imagine change. But MBS and Trump were on pretty much equal footing. Knowing little made them oddly comfortable with each other.

Bannon, in a public statement, declared: "You are either with Trump or against him.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier

you are right where you should be / now act like it

Coincidence means two incidents occurring simultaneously. Doesn't mean just random, but meaningful connections, unfolding of the divinity. Let more meaningful incidents be synchronized, recognize them and get MickeyMized!