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This is exactly where those lofty Mission + Values statements come into play and why they're important when they're both written and lived well (as opposed to j
by ff317 4y ago
This is exactly where those lofty Mission + Values statements come into play and why they're important when they're both written and lived well (as opposed to just some bland generic screed made from corporate buzzword bingo terms that everyone ignores).
The Mission is what you're trying to achieve (the profit motive, in some form), and the Values are the guardrails. They say explicitly what things you won't sacrifice (like human rights and lives) in service of the mission.
Having this stuff laid out clearly from the top down helps a lot with getting efforts to create and enforce those lower level processes taken seriously.
- csours 4y agoAnd when teams ask for resources to fix issues, they have to get those resources. Its all very well for an executive to say those lofty things, it also has to be funded. Unfortunately, sometimes people in the middle just assume that saving money is more important; the CEO might have told them to allocate resources, but the request just got squashed along the way.