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Zach Mercurio QUOTES

Zach Mercurio QUOTES

1 " Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. —Marianne Williamson "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

2 " The search for purpose and meaning is fundamentally human; the uniting trait of our species. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

3 " Purpose is the reason for your rare, precious existence that is useful to others. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

4 " What you do will only ever be as good as WHY you do it. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

5 " People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

6 " Gallup conducted more than eighty-thousand interviews in 2014 and 2015 as part of an ongoing study and found that just 13 percent of the world’s workers were engaged in their jobs. In the United States, that number was just 32 percent, and the problem didn’t only affect low-paid workers. The interviews revealed that 37 percent of leaders and managers also felt disengaged at work. The last statistic is especially troubling, since people on average spend around 35 percent of their waking lives at work.10 How can the experience be positive for them if even their leaders are disengaged? "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

7 " Imagine the difference it would have made if, instead, my boss had said, “Welcome! This job exists to potentially change the trajectory of human beings’ entire lives in a single conversation. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

8 " Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

9 " Roy Spence, the author of It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For, recounted "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

10 " why does your job exist? "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

11 " Tell the story of why you exist, often. Talk about why before what in meetings. Reward why before what, and train people by first engaging them in your story. Create shared dramatic experiences. People need to feel your purpose. How do your people know when organizational purpose has been delivered? How do they hear about it? Do they see it? Do they feel it? More important, do they experience it together? "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

12 " The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. —Mark Twain "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

13 " Every organization has such stories. Tell them often. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

14 " Design people’s first experiences on purpose. First experiences with an organization are a vital, though often overlooked, component of instilling purpose. The first experiences we have with an idea, organization, or movement stay with us, so make sure that your employee on-boarding and any and all stakeholder experiences begin with the story of why. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

15 " When you live by results, you die by results. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

16 " Practicing Purpose Tip While the people you surround yourself with surely don’t have to agree with you, they should believe in your purpose. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

17 " As people, we have stakeholders in our lives: our friends, family, colleagues, advisors. All these people know why we do what we do. How do we enroll them in our stories to support us as we move along this journey? Author Paul Ratoff, in his book, Thriving in a Stakeholder World: Purpose as the New Competitive Advantage, calls this your “stakeholder world.” Identifying your key stakeholders and enrolling them in your purpose is critical. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

18 " Leaders and followers are both following the invisible leader—the common purpose. —Mary Parker Follett "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

19 " If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try falling asleep with a mosquito in your room. —The Dalai Lama "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

20 " The list becomes what author Paul Ratoff calls your stakeholder world, or your “customers.” Taking this reflective exercise further, when you can rank your stakeholders by who experiences or benefits most from your purpose (not products or results), it can dramatically affect how you think about those you impact. "

― Zach Mercurio , The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose