“I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.” WayYearsStillsTodayCareersFineOrganizationBraveLive For TodayCardinalsAtlantaBest YearCubs Author:Bruce Sutter
“I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.” FeelsYearsHas BeensOpportunityGivenCareersTeamFansReturnOrganizationBlessedExcitedNbaVery HappyHonoredEnthusiasticJoining Author:Eric Snow
“Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.” TryingSuccessTurnsWinningAttentionCareersFieldsBuddhismApproachPerfectionOrganizationPlaying FieldsBusiness Organization Author:Frederick Lenz
“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveGivenCareersHappenedCommitmentOrganizationGet BetterBelieve In MeGiven UpStride Author:Mike Conley, Jr.
“The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.” PeopleNeedsFeelingsNumbersCareersPathSuccessfulTypeMessagesOrganizationIncreaseManagementMajorityEsteemWinnerCategoriesClimbingFewerLaddersContributingCareer PathClimbing Up Author:Judith M Bardwick
“I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.” ThinkingWayKindWarYoungOpportunityCareersTerribleConflictOrganizationReportersCovering Author:Walter Cronkite
“Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.” MatterThreeLevelsCareersOrganization Author:Simon Sinek
“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.” WayTwoDifferentPlayShowsPassionThreeGamesLossCareersFocusPiecesTroubleMissingBalanceOrganizationStressStrategyCompetitionObsessionDifferent WaysPuzzlesTacticsTactics And Strategy Author:Simon Sinek