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Unheroic Work

A secret weapon for managing your values

Culture, Org Identity, Unheroic Work, Values · June 23, 2022

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

Culture, Org Identity, Purpose, Unheroic Work · May 25, 2022

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 …

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How good intentions become bad communications

Brand, Communications, Subscriber Articles, Unheroic Work · May 9, 2022

It's 1990, and a Stanford University graduate student in psychology named Elizabeth Newton is using a game to test how people communicate. …

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Your values will benefit from some (productive) tension

Brand, Culture, Org Identity, Unheroic Work, Values · February 28, 2022

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 …

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How Aristotle and Buddhism can help define your core values.

Brand, Culture, Employee experience, Org Identity, Unheroic Work, Values · February 8, 2022

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 …

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A new tool for making promises you can keep

Culture, Leadership, Operations, Promises, Unheroic Work · January 20, 2022

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 …

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Put play to work

Brand, Culture, Employee experience, Org Identity, Unheroic Work · December 1, 2021

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 …

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Set your upper bounds and march to success

Brand, Operations, Unheroic Work · November 12, 2021

Taking measured action over and over is decidedly unsexy. Especially given it runs counter to the more common 'splashy launch' mindset. Yet, …

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The lost valley of unheroic work

Purpose, Unheroic Work, Values · September 27, 2021

Organisations are made of unheroic work — those thousands of everyday actions and decisions that keep your particular engine turning. Hidden …

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