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People Make Organizations Great

As you walk through the last days of the last thousand years with your team, don't forget to remind them of how important they are. Below is a sample of how you might set up a discussion on this topic and a couple of quotes to stimulate thinking. They work well to emphasize your message.

Sample Discussion Set-Up:

We have all worked hard to align ourselves in the same direction toward achieving our business goals ... but as we continue to open the way for a new Millennium, it is not the business goals, our vision, or the slogans we've created to unite us as a team that makes our organization great. It's all of you... each and every one of you contributes to our business success.

Now we continue our journey to set new standards of excellence for our organizations. It's important for all of us to remember that it is the diversity of the talents each of us brings, working together, that will make us great.

Discussion Question to Ask:

What are the 2 or 3 things you think we can do to help us capitalize on the strengths of our team.

Thought-Provoking Quotes:

"For each of us as individuals, empowerment means placing ourselves in the position of being creators of the organization to which we belong."

--Peter Block, Author
Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

"To be competitive, you have to be willing to step out of the pack and take risks, even jump completely out of your element if that what it takes."

--Carol Bartz
Chairman and CEO
Autodesk

"Improvement is accomplished by better methods, better techniques, better machinery and equipment, and by people continually finding better ways to do their jobs and to work together as a team."

--Dave Packard
Co-Founder, Hewlett-Packard Company
1957

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