Mike and Thanh explore the Asian Efficiency core values, how they came to them, and why they've changed over the years. They discuss the benefits of having core values for your personal life and your company, and how you can use core values to make decisions, hire new staff, and create a more productive work and home life.

Cheat Sheet

All about the "Mission to Mars" process Asian Efficiency uses for identifying our core values

What core values really are and how they're different from the things that you want

How having personal core values will benefit every area of your life

Why core values can be polarizing and how that can be a good thing

What core values and successful relationships have in common

How to make better decisions by using your core values

The power of alignment and how it can be a force multiplier for organizational productivity

How core values can help battle cognitive dissonance

How we landed on the AE team Core Values and what they are

Why we have the whole team do customer service

Why you don't want to frame your core values negatively

Why we chose to remove a core value and replace it with something else

What accountability really is (hint: it's not just finding someone to blame when things go wrong)

How to improve your hiring decisions using core values

Key questions to ask yourself when discovering your own core values

Why it can be beneficial to publish your core values instead of keeping them internal

A writing exercise for finding your own core values

Why having core values at all is more important than having the "right" ones

Links

Mike's family's core values graphic

TPS66: The Asian Efficiency Core Values

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat

TPS7: Going Paperless w/ Brooks Duncan

Disc test

Kolbe test

TPS101: Lean Thinking w/ Paul Akers

TPS78: Live a Minimalist Luxury Lifestyle w/ Thanh Pham

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