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Without cultural alignment, the world’s best operational strategy will fail.

Stories have the power to win customers, align colleagues, and motivate employees.

Under the right conditions, the problems of commitment, alignment, motivation, and change largely take care of themselves.

Equity can’t create perfect incentives, but it’s the best way for a founder to keep everyone in the company broadly aligned.

…when using OKRs at scale, there’s a larger burden on leadership and management to ensure that the organization is truly aligned…

Taking the inventory of your current work at all levels will automatically produce greater focus, alignment, and sense of priorities.

…clarity…is a word that is used incessantly by leaders, consultants, and organizational theorists, and yet… real alignment remains frustratingly rare.

…leaders underestimate the impact of even subtle misalignment at the top, and the damage caused to the rest of the organization by small gaps…

There is probably no greater frustration for employees than having to constantly navigate the politics and confusion caused by leaders who are misaligned.

…every organization, if it wants to create a sense of alignment and focus, must have a single top priority within a given period of time.