So, one Sunday eve recently as I was researching for a UF class on Leadership that I present to ExecEd MBAs and at the law school, I ran across a website that featured various companies’ value statements. Below is a collage of the principles that spoke most to me; I hope you find meaning and inspiration in them as well.
- Productivity over Process, Trust in Judgement over Rules and Incentives.
- Make it better, keep it light, Done is better than perfect. Build with love.
- Today not tomorrow. Move fast for the quick shall inherit the earth.
- Bring purpose: we are here because of our why, we build fulfilling lives together. We respect each other’s time; we are a collective of peers.
- Be an energy giver, be extraordinary. Work fearlessly, Live passionately.
- Work smart; data beats opinion. Encourage autonomy, trust, and transparency. Happiness is the new productivity.
- Keep moving forward/onward/upward, embrace a learning and a growth mind set. Do more with less. Enjoy the journey. Be resilient.
- Own outcomes, don’t find fault, find remedies. We honor our words with actions. It’s not what we say, it’s what we do.
- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist; Success is a grind, Accept it.
- When you don’t realize what you can’t do, you can do some pretty cool stuff.
- We live our core values: honest, open, respectful, always polite and positive and fanatical about frequent feedback.
- We join forces, we win together, we totally trust each other. We invest in ourselves, each other, and efficiency.
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832