Quotes About Alignment

Unclear expectations in the area of goals also undermine communication and trust.

More than doing things right, it's focused on doing the right things.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.

Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it's in shape.

El Dr. Covey solía decir que «la única ventaja competitiva sostenible que perdura es aquella que nace de una cultura organizacional de alta confianza, centrada en principios, con personas comprometidas y alineadas a una visión común.

The fact that we know it—and that it doesn't get translated into the fabric of our daily lives—is the frustration of the gap between the compass and the clock. Our

Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behavior with your beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you're not being driven by everything that happens to you. You have a sense of mission about what you're trying to do and you are excited about it.3

channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense. "Everyone" might say finishing Harvard should be the most important task for a young Bill Gates. Instead, he aligned his efforts with his mission, despite any disapproving glances from well-meaning people.

success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

Because your employee must first appreciate that you are on her wavelength and understand her thinking completely.

Don't compromise, when you can synergize.

How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves?

To ensure that there is minimal duplication of effort and for regional product managers to align effectively with the enterprise, a corporate product and portfolio management function is necessary.

How do you minimize product duplication?" or "How do you rationalize product investments on a global basis?

This is a very important point. Flow carries within it delicious possibility. In the state, we are aligned with our core passion and, because of flow's incredible impact on performance, expressing that passion to our utmost. Under normal conditions (playing chess, writing a report), this is empowering.

The danger, sometimes called the Value Alignment Problem, is that we might give an AI a goal and then helplessly stand by as it relentlessly and literal-mindedly implemented its interpretation of that goal, the rest of our interests be damned.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.