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Set That Direction!: Create a Compelling Direction that Will Make Others Want to Follow You (Project Management Screw-Ups Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Lonnie Pacelli (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Do you spend hours creating a team mission statement only to have it stuffed in a drawer never to see light of day again? If this is you then you need this short read to help you create a crisp, concise and compelling direction statement which inspires your team to excel.

So many times organizations get wrapped up in terminology and process that the resulting direction statement becomes a mass of gobbledygook which no one understands or follows. Direction statements need to clearly direct, inspire, and align a team to deliver, not get stuffed in a drawer only to be pulled out again the next time a direction statement needs to be developed. Great for John C. Maxwell fans, Set That Direction! will help you create a practical, useful and compelling direction statement that will make people want to follow you.

Set That Direction! is a great read for Small Business Owners Entrepreneurs Consultants Business Coaches Life Coaches Small Business Advisors Women Business Owners Startups Business Mentors Career Change
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Vision, mission, goals, values, objectives, and guiding principles. Terms that you've all heard of but that create confusion within a team when you try to use them to develop something practical. I've been in many strategy meetings where team members have argued over their definitions. "Wait a minute, our mission looks more like a vision!" "Do we need both values and guiding principles?" "I understand what our goals are, but what are our objectives?" These meetings became a classic case of trying to do things right, versus trying to do the right thing. At the end, the team felt great because they finally settled upon what was a vision versus a mission, and then promptly forgot about the work that was done in the strategy meeting and went back to doing their job. It's just like spending two days trying to squeeze into size 8 dress shoes when you're a size 10, then after you finally squeeze your little tootsies into the size 8s you take them off and put on your size 10 tennis shoes. Then you hang the size 8s on the wall to show you're in line with company values, but you never try to put them on again because they just hurt too much.

Colleagues, I'm going to debunk a lot of conventional thinking on this topic. Let's cut through the fog and get down to some very practical basics. There are a lot of different opinions on the "right" versus "wrong" way to set and document direction. Frankly I'm not interested in which way is more right or wrong; I'm much more interested in creating a direction that makes sense to the team and that the team can rally behind. Knowing the difference between a mission and vision, between goals and objectives, or between guiding principles and values isn't the important thing. There's no pop quiz here and I strongly doubt that anyone ever lost his or her job because he or she misquoted a mission as a vision. Don't make developing a direction statement harder than it needs to be.

I feel that you need to follow four very simple, basic guidelines to develop a good direction statement. I hope you find the guidelines in Set That Direction helpful.Best - Lonnie

About the Author

Lonnie has over 35 years' experience including 11 at Accenture, 9 at Microsoft, and 15 as an independent strategy consultant and author. Independent director at Northwest Center, a $60m disability inclusion non-profit that operates 7 businesses which fund services provided to people with disabilities.

He has held key positions at Microsoft including managing $6b in spend as director of corporate procurement and leading the worldwide corporate planning and budgeting group. As strategy consultant at Microsoft led business-critical initiatives including $30m information technology program to transform Nokia phone manufacturing factory to Xbox and Surface repair facility. Created and drove cultural change through a strategic project assurance review process used on over 100 projects in one of Microsoft's internal IT organizations.

He is a popular leadership, project management and autism awareness author and keynote speaker. See more at LonniePacelli.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0063GVT4G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pacelli Publishing (November 3, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4833 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 16 pages

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Lonnie Pacelli is the author of over 50 books on project management, leadership development, disability inclusion, and autism awareness. He lives in Bellevue Washington with his wife Patty who both enjoy spending time with their kids, granddaughter, and grand-dogs.

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