26 cultural values companies get wrong
Values are a key ingredient in "what's it like to work here" that potential hires try to discover before signing on. It's also what causes current employees, clients, or customers to stay or leave.
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Values are a key ingredient in "what's it like to work here" that potential hires try to discover before signing on.
It's also what causes current employees, clients, or customers to stay or leave.
Organizational culture is often defined by its values, or lack thereof.
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Values are a key ingredient in "what's it like to work here" that potential hires try to discover before signing on. It's also what causes current employees, clients, or customers to stay or leave. We asked members of the Fast Company Impact Council what's a cultural value they think most companies get wrong.
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- EXCELLENCE AND EMPATHY Too many organizations treat excellence and empathy as competing priorities.
- At the nonprofit I lead, we believe high performance is built on what we call "gracious professionalism." It's the idea that respect and kindness are not at odds...
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Organizational culture is often defined by its values, or lack thereof. Values often get defined in mission statements or corporate branding. Stating what they are doesn't always make them so.
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