permission-values
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Do Your Values Really Mean Something?

Here’s the takeaway: Companies need to avoid these three traps when defining their core values.  There’s a great Harvard Business Review article on core values by Patrick Lencioni, who is probably the most brilliant guy in the space. He identifies three value traps, mistakes companies often make when defining their core values. If they fall…

What Is an Inward-Facing Core Value?
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What Is an Inward-Facing Core Value?

Here’s the takeaway: Finding your organization’s inward-facing core values is crucial to establishing your company culture. Your core values will define who you are as an organization. When you’ve identified those values, you can hire, fire, review, reward, and reprimand based on those attributes. When I work with leadership teams, we focus on identifying the…

How To Identify Your Core Values
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How To Identify Your Core Values

Here’s the takeaway: Identify your organization’s core values by discovering within your own employees. When we go through the process of creating and identifying an organization’s core values, those values come from the behavior that drives your company culture. They are who you are; core values are the soul of the organization. The nice thing…