Our Core Values
A quiet word about hypocrisy
Writing down these thoughts carries risks, especially inviting accusations of hypocrisy when we fail to practice what we preach.
But we’re not hypocrites; we’re human. The ideals we discuss here are aspirations for our best selves. Realistically, most of us achieve that about 62.7758% of the time, if we’re fortunate.
So yes, despite our goals, principles, and high standards, we anticipate not always fully meeting them.
That’s called falling short.
However, falling short doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned our principles; it simply means we missed the mark this time.
It’s crucial to forgive ourselves and others when we don’t live up to our values.
Equally important is to hold ourselves accountable to those values, without being preachy or judgmental.
Ideally, we’d hit our ‘best selves’ target about 92.8825% of the time in a good week.
That would indeed be a great week.
Employee-Centric Values
Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behaviour. This sentence already refers directly to our main core value unleash the inherent potential and ingenuity in people and systems, so they create the unimaginable .
Systemic and Holistic Strategies
We lead with reason, knowledge and science, not with hypes and management illusions. We edit only the weakest link in a system. An improvement at any point in the system, not at the CONSTRAINT, is an illusion.
Collaboration
If I could choose one word that embodies the most important value of all and forms the basis of everything we undertake, it would be COLLABORATION. It is the essence of achieving real, massive results. Building strong partnerships with the private sector, city government, community organizations, academic and research institutions, and regional and national government bodies is essential to achieving common goals.
Purpose-Driven Profit
We see money not as “The Answer” but as a tool to realize goals, understanding that financial success is meaningless without purpose, and purpose is unattainable without performance. This is not a gimmick; it is a strategic imperative. Viewing financial success as a tool to achieve broader societal goals emphasizes that profit and purpose are inherently intertwined.
Sustainability
Good businesses are profitable, but great businesses are transformative. Envision a company consistently generating double-digit profits year after year, regardless of economic or social circumstances. This company uses its prosperity to safeguard its employees and stakeholders, including suppliers and customers. Moreover, the company’s wealth is harnessed for initiatives that enhance the world’s beauty and well-being, rather than concentrating wealth in the hands of a few shareholders. Imagine those resources being thoughtfully invested where they are most needed. We refer to these endeavours as “elegant.”
Social Responsibility
We passionately tackle and resolve Annoying Big Fucking Problems (ABFPs) in our corner of the world because it’s intolerable to witness unending misery without resolution, unacceptable that a small elite benefits while the majority languishes and exhilarating to experience the profound impact of solving truly distressing challenges.
Sharing Knowledge
As in Collaboration, it is essential to learn from others and to share and mix our own knowledge and experiences. Promoting the dissemination of best practices, insights, and innovations to empower others and drive collective progress.
Inclusivity
Today, inclusivity is a word so important that everyone is using it. We don’t because, for us, everyone is equal. We also know that not everyone wants to have a say or participate in strategic decisions. We believe in the sociocracy model. The essence of sociocracy is a governance system that emphasizes inclusive, consent-based decision-making, transparency, and distributed authority to ensure all voices are heard and respected within any system. Sociocracy
Excellence
We are dedicated: We embody the principles we advocate, striving to be exemplary in all facets of our operations, living out the values we champion.