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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

by Jon Gordon
January 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
194 pages
2h 41m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Chapter 30
The Team Gets Inspired
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Instead of telling the team his bigger purpose and vision, George had an idea to let his team formulate a shared purpose and vision together. Rather than being told what their purpose and vision should be, he thought it would be more powerful, meaningful, and inspiring if the team formulated what they wanted it to be. And powerful it was. George explained the several examples Joy had shared with him and immediately the team ran with it. They started sharing ideas back and forth. Like a game of ping pong the energy was bouncing around the room while Jamie wrote all their ideas on a white board.
Then over the course of an hour and many discussions later they narrowed it down to three central principles that everyone, including George, agreed on. For today and every day hereafter they would not just be a team who brought new lightbulbs to market but rather a team that:
1. Strived for greatness and produced great ideas, great marketing campaigns, and great results.
2. Worked with purpose and spirit to develop Chief Energy Officers not only within their team but within their entire company by sharing the positive energy.
3. Shared the light. No longer would they be people who just made lightbulbs. Instead they would see themselves as people whose lightbulbs helped a child read in bed before bedtime, an elderly person find their medicine at night, a working ...
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