It started with landscaping. While I was in grad school (hoping for a Sustainable Development or Agriculture Master’s degree), I got a job with a landscaping crew. The boss was an old hippie:...

When I ran my herbal apothecary, one of my values was being environmentally friendly. I sourced my ingredients from a well-respected vendor, I grew and harvested many of my own plants, I used...

There are dozens of values a company could select as important for itself. But not all values are equal. There are many that are too vague or bland that they have lost their meaning and, for a...

You start with values. What’s important to you? To your team? Identifying the gaps is a good place to start. What do you wish was more of a priority? What do you base your decisions on? These...

I value companies with a purpose. It lights me up. It makes me feel a sense of relief after despair that commercialism might be ruining our planet. Actually, it turns out, there are many companies...

We all set goals. After you decide what you want, you set goals. And along the way, we’ve been taught the business maxim that goals must be SMART (specific measurable, attainable, relevant...

What does success look like for you? For your company? (is it only team oriented, group success? Or can you celebrate individual success? Is it profit and money? Or customer satisfaction,...

A huge part of developing company culture is identifying, celebrating and prioritizing core values. When team members believe that they share a value or group of values with their teammates, they...