The continuing effort to keep values in balance tempts many organisations to measure and manage them in people's performance and behaviours. …
Culture
Every choice is an opportunity to show your purpose
Turn in any direction these days, and you'll trip over people talking about their purpose. This is not a bad thing; it's essential to …
Your values will benefit from some (productive) tension
Sticking with values, I want to expand on an element of Aristotle's golden mean from my last article. I call it productive tension. Look …
How Aristotle and Buddhism can help define your core values.
Too many conversations about values start by asking are they right or wrong. But for most organisations “How do we use them?” is a more …
A new tool for making promises you can keep
On the bottom shelf of my bookcase, I've got a small library of books and a stack of papers that explore promises and commitments. The …
Put play to work
When an organisation puts a 'fun place to work' in their values, they often mean a games room, funky furniture and kombucha on tap. Not how …
How to make the most of your values.
Values are not there as a billboard for your goodness. Frankly, I don’t care what someone who doesn’t work for me, with me and buy from me …
Trust turbo-charges your brand result.
Are you a trust given or a trust earned person? In my experience, everyone is one or the other, and like oil and water, the two don't …
The consequences of promises
Consequences always follow promises, and the nature of the outcome is determined by whether you keep or break them. At first glance, …