Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- Do you have explicit corporate values? If so, do those values reflect a blend of your founding principles and the evolving demands of the marketplace? Or are they static and immutable? 2. What do your customers value? How do your corporate values match up with the wants, needs, and desires of your customers? 3. Since values can be both explicit (st
Joseph Michelli • The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW
To design the Culture that you want for your company, you must take inventory of the shared values of the group. What are those things that you and your team believe to be universally true? Those are the things that you care about most, the things that you seek in your lives. They are your values.
Trey Taylor • A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite
Leaders must get across the why as well as the what. Their people need more than milestones for motivation. They are thirsting for meaning, to understand how their goals relate to the mission. And the process can’t stop with unveiling top-line OKRs at a quarterly all-hands meeting. As LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner likes to say, “When you are tired of sa
... See moreJohn Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
have each person take the words in a company’s list of values and write what it means to them and how they see it in action.