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" Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive. "

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" While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine. "

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" Diversity is not just the right thing to do but right for business. "

" Our goal is not to be the biggest. Our goal is to be the best. That is why the aspiration that I have picked is to be the undisputed leader in professional services, and I'm starting with intangible metrics. "

" When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold. "

" For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business. "

" I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services. "

" The more a business is able to develop and articulate a core purpose and engage with millennials, who equate purpose with business excellence, the greater chances for long-term success. "

" We believe that if you want to have diverse leaders 10 years down the road, we've got to make sure they're getting the right assignments, the right client experiences today. "

" While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society. "

" Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand. "

" As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of 'doing good.' "

" For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters. "

" I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there. "

" In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow. "

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Edge

Intellectual

" I'm not motivated by having the largest revenue base - you get that as an outcome. If we do our job well, we will be appropriately rewarded. "

" We want all clients to think of us first when they want to hire an auditor or if they want to have an adviser to solve difficult corporate problems. We want the best talent to join our firm. "

" Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn't seem like it. "

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Suffering

Really

" What I would say is that if someone faces discrimination, they should never back down. They should be self-confident and educate others not to have such an attitude. "

" For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it's often because no one focused on who they are - that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together. "

" Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the workforce, or immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in a foreign culture. The process for creating wealth must begin with creating opportunity for all. "

" Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy. "

" Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I'm still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets. "

" Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power. "

" It is a privilege to be part of an organization that delivers high-quality services and innovative solutions to the best clients, develops the most talented professionals into leaders, and does its part to improve the societies in which we operate. "

" I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance. "

" As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities. "

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Opportunities

" It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania. "

" An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit. "

" The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.' "