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I heard once (Clayton Christensen, maybe?) that a leader needs to say things 7 times before the message is heard, understood and internalized.  Never assume that the message you shared once, 3 months ago, was heard in the first place, or that it’s still a driving motivation for people now.  Ask questions.  Share success stories.  Be hyper focused and, when in doubt, communicate it again.  Other people don’t live in your head.

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As Adeo Ressi of the Founder Institute notes in the article "Mad Libs for Pitches" on TechCrunch: When completing an exercise like this, too many people "add useless adjectives, define their audience too vaguely and have a weak value proposition."

They want companies to give back to the community,  to eliminate the traditional 9 to 5 workday, collaboration instead of isolation, and to create a organization fabricated by social media.

92 percent of Millennials believe that business should be measured by more than just profit and should focus on a societal purpose.

A Cisco study shows that 70 percent of students believe it is unnecessary to be in an office regularly. Millennials will make working from home or from shared office spaces the norm — goodbye cubicles!

Collaboration is key," Polman said, "The issues are simply too big to go it alone.

about collaboration at new scales.

The secret is to begin, to move forward despite the uncertainty and to become comfortable with much greater transparency and collaboration, so that we can bravely lead for a new order of things,"

What you stop doing is as important, if not more so, as what you start doing

Won’t achieve the endpoint without breaking the journey down into intermediate steps;

Is the Brundtland definition of sustainability ambitious enough? Should we not want to improve the world for future generations