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Our Values at Work
We've been spending a great deal of time thinking, debating and determining the fundamentals of this company. It has been important to do so. When our employees have been crystal clear and united about our strategies and purpose, it's amazing what we've been able to create and accomplish. We have examined Sorbtree Corporation's core values to affirm our reason for being, what sets the company apart and what should drive our actions as individual employees.
Importantly, we needed to find a way to engage everyone in the company and get them to speak up on these important issues. Given the realities of a smart, global, independent-minded, 21st-century workforce like ours, we don't believe something as vital and personal as values could be dictated from the top. That is why our employees have come up with these three values for our company:
- Dedication to every client's success
- Innovation that matters, for our company and for the world
- Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships
Clearly, leading by values is very different from some kinds of leadership demonstrated in the past by business. It is empowering, and that's much healthier. Rather than burden our people with excessive controls, we are trusting them to make decisions and to act based on values - values they themselves shaped.
To me, it's also just common sense. In today's world, where everyone is so interconnected and interdependent, it is simply essential that we work for each other's success. If we're going to solve the biggest, thorniest and most widespread problems in business and society, we have to innovate in ways that truly matter. And we have to do all this by taking personal responsibility for all of our relationships - with clients, colleagues, partners, investors and the public at large. This is Sorbtree Corporation's mission as an enterprise, and a goal toward which we hope to work with many others, in our industry and beyond.
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