For many years now it has been an established part of business lore that articulating a clear and appealing mission and set of values, with authenticity of managerial commitment to them, produces powerful results. A foundational story in the history of this wisdom is that of Lincoln Electric, a welding supply company founded in 1895. John Lincoln, and later his younger brother James, were among the first to use modern leadership techniques to achieve success, pioneers in taking a mission, values, and goals and turning them into something employees would really care about on an individual level, spurring not one or two but seven Harvard Business Review case studies on this outwardly unexciting supplier of welding supply products.

><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'>Setting the tone in black & white</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>Leaders of high-performance teams have their focus not on managing operational details but on establishing employee priorities 

Setting the tone in black & white

Leaders of high-performance teams have their focus not on managing operational details but on establishing employee priorities they never take their eyes off the goal and make sure their employees are keeping their eyes on it too, according to this excerpt from the book All In

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