Quotes about Clarity

Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear.

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

Teams that commit to decisions and standards do so because they know how to embrace two separate but related concepts: buy-in and clarity. Buy-in is the achievement of honest emotional support. Clarity is the removal of assumptions and ambiguity from a situation. Commitment is about a group of intelligent, driven individuals buying in to a decision precisely when they don't naturally agree. In other words, it's the ability to defy a lack of consensus.

If everything is important, nothing is

As difficult as it is to build a cohesive team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical

When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

No amount of intellectual prowess or personal charisma can make up for an inability to identify a few simple things and stick to them over time.

Once a leadership team has become cohesive and worked to establish clarity and alignment around the answers to the six critical questions, then, and only then, can they effectively move on to the next step: communicating those answers. Or better yet, overcommunicating those answers—over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.