The continuing effort to keep values in balance tempts many organisations to measure and manage them in people's performance and behaviours. …
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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 …
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 …
Avoid statement creep and focus on what matters most
You know the page. There might even be one in your organisation. At the top is purpose, and from there, the cascade continues …
Beware the noise of other people’s ideas.
The book "Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgement" by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein and Oliver Sibony explores the information and choices that …
Brand is a warehouse for value
Untethering a brand from day-to-day marketing activities can leave people feeling at sea about what remains. If it isn’t all the markers …
There is no there for values and culture
The team of five peered out from their respective Zoom screens. It wasn't the ideal way to do the work we were about to begin, but after …