What Values Actually Steer Your Corporate Culture?

A basic tenet of leadership is to define the primary values which should guide your organization. These are the values which we espouse. But are they necessarily the values the organization embodies?

What's often the case is that an organization has a set of espoused values which are posted prominently and listed in employee handbooks. But the values which actually guide the organization are altogether different.

One way to identify this alternative set of values is to pay attention to the people who are celebrated as heroes within the corporate culture. What values were behind the actions which led them to be seen as heroes? Those are in fact the values the organization treasures.

And new workers, seeing incongruity between the organization's espoused values and the values it celebrates, will conclude that the celebrated values are the ones they should heed.

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