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 What Is a Company Mission Statement and How Can You Create Your Own? To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Can you guess the famous companies based on the openings of their mission statements? Mission statements like these (Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, respectively) sum up each company’s objectives, strategy, and values. Whether you are just starting out with a new business or rethinking your current goals, mission statements are effective ways of saying a lot with a few words. They demonstrate your organizational values to both your employees and the general public.  What is a company mission statement? A mission statement isn’t simply stating your company’s desire to be the best in your field or make the best product. Instead, it is a way of showing what makes your company...

  Leaders in the pandemic hold the key to unlocking the power of motivation. By Marcel Schwantes  -  Founder and Chief Human Officer, Leadership From the Core     Motivating your employees  may come in many forms, but in the pandemic age and with so much  stress and anxiety  ruling their lives, work has to be elevated to the pursuit of something compelling -- something with a higher purpose than just doing the job.  As  leaders , we have to find that intrinsic desire in employees that comes from deep within, where both heart and mind are in the game. There's no question leaders in the pandemic hold the key to unlocking the power of motivation. And it always starts with how you  make your people feel .  Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou famously stated, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."   Star...

 There is a story of identical twins. One was a hope-filled optimist. "Everything is coming up roses!" he would say. The other twin was a sad and hopeless pessimist. He thought that Murphy, as in Murphy's Law, was an optimist. The worried parents of the boys brought them to the local psychologist. He suggested to the parents a plan to balance the twins' personalities. "On their next birthday, put them in separate rooms to open their gifts. Give the pessimist the best toys you can afford and give the optimist a box of manure." The parents followed these instructions and carefully observed the results. When they peeked in on the pessimist, they heard him audibly complaining, "I don't like the color of this computer... I'll bet this calculator will break... I don't like the game... I know someone who's got a bigger toy car than this..." Tiptoeing across the corridor, the parents peeked in and saw their little optimist gleefully throwin...