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Writing down our values
On a sunny day in the spring of 2015, Stewart gathered a small set of early employees and leaders at the company. He projected a list of company values on the screen in bold block letters:
- INTEGRITY
- COMMUNICATION
- RESPECT
- EXCELLENCE
“Guess which company has these values?” he asked. After a beat, he delivered the punchline: “Enron.” A byword for corporate fraud, corruption and failure. “We’re not allowed to have any of these words in our values. Integrity is probably in the corporate values of half the Fortune 500. And look at how they behave.”
His point? Words don’t mean much if you don’t actually live up to and embody their meaning in how you work.