Tag: values

Do More With Less

7 August 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Do More With Less" Well, I'm an

Be Humble

2 August 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Be Humble" This is really hard. Like, really hard. It's particularly hard to explain in a blog post how good you are at being humble! Err, yes. Ummm. Right. Some people might point to candid blog posts like these and suggest they're evidence […]

Embrace and Drive Change

1 August 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Embrace and Drive Change" When it's change you want – change you asked for, it's easy to talk about embracing and driving change, but that's only part of it. It's different when it's unexpected change. Suddenly you have to do things differently (when […]

Listen First, Then Listen More

31 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Listen First, Then Listen More" Everyday we hear things, TV, people talking to us, but how much do we listen? Sometimes, it's quite easy to talk – if someone tells you about their recent holiday, sometimes it's tempting to talk to them about your recent […]

Show Gratitude

30 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Show Gratitude" This value is distinct, and yet very complimentary to yesterday's value. It took me until my late teens to realise many of the things I am grateful for, when after a series of turbulent times, the stars aligned for a moment, […]

Always Choose Positivity and Happiness

30 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Always Choose Positivity and Happiness" I once watched a film on television. I didn't know it at the time, but it had quite an effect on me, until today, I'd always attributed it to other films. The film was the Pollyanna – the […]

Do the right thing

28 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Do the right thing" This is quite a difficult value to blog about, because if you try to do the right thing, it's possible you might not even know you're doing it. I guess the point to give you confidence that specifically […]

Create Fun and A Little Weirdness

27 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Create Fun and A Little Weirdness"? This is an unusual value, but I like it a lot. It kind of has the effect of celebrating diversity and, in an organisational context, highlights that it's an organisation of real people. One of the […]

Be Passionate and Determined

26 July 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge Be Passionate and Determined? I can think of three things that embody this: Scouting access for an unclimbed Mountain in Kyrgzystan: Undocumented location, undocumented transport logistics, undocumented passport logistics, undocumented human logistics (who? language? make friends with them?) With only 10 days to […]

My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge

25 July 2014

Two companies whom I feel have very positive company cultures are Zappos and Buffer. Because these organisations go out of their way to embody a high purpose, I've a feel a great deal of respect and awe towards these them. The thing is, the values all seem relatively familiar, and I'm interested to see how […]

If I were a religious man.

27 April 2014

Occasionally forms have a field labelled: "Religion" followed by a bunch of tick boxes. A tick in a box is rarely very descriptive and so I thought I'd try and explain where I stand on faith. Background I was raised as a non-religious person in a largely non-religious pseudo-christian culture. What do I mean by […]