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Went to ben folds concert tonight. Awesome.
Went to ben folds concert tonight. Awesome.
Check out the full post at the OrganizedWisdom blog.So here are the 10 core values that shape our culture...
- Our people are our most valuable asset and our most important investment: Over 90% of our budget is invested directly in our team! It is ultimately our team who drive innovation and create success.
- We only hire A-team players who are the best at what they do: We care as much about passion and a positive attitude as we do specific skills and experience. We strive for a family spirit to create a fertile environment for service, progress and growth.
- We dream big: We believe (and have proven since inception) that any goal we set for the Company, we achieve. We set big goals and constantly ask how can we do better, how can we innovate, and how can we help more people?
- We focus on effectiveness and results: We work with each team member to define clear and measurable goals every month and use weekly metric reviews to stay focused and keep on track.
- We believe transparency and collaborative communication makes us more effective: We get more done when working together which is why we use group communication tools for nearly everything we do.
- We stay solutions focused when innovating: The mindset is not why we can't do something, but how we can do something.
- We don't write plans, we mock our ideas. On the fly prototyping enables us to innovate rapidly, save valuable time, and get new creations live early and often so we can get invaluable real world feedback.
- We continually test, experiment and optimize: Our product and the service we are creating are never done. We use data and real-world feedback and iterate producing major transformations of the week.
- We thrive because of our $0 Cost Office Model: Our going green virtually approach helps us do more with less, create happier team members, and invest our time and capital more effectively to better serve our users and our clients.
- We're passionate about an important mission -- to create the most useful search service in online health...We hope those around us are inspired by our energy and passion for the OrganizedWisdom Mission to help people.
At times the two central protagonists behaved like people whose day job was working up skits for Monty Python....they had distinctly lackadaisical work habits. Watson played several sets of tennis every afternoon and spent his evenings alternately chasing 'popsies' at Cambridge parties and going to the movies. Crick, who rarely showed up at the lab before 10 AM and took a coffee break and hour later repeatedly appeared to lose interest in the problem of DNA. On more than one occasion, vital piece of information were obtained not through hard work but as a result of chance conversations in the tea line at the Cavendish laboratory.I love the last paragraph of her post to summarize:
Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save yourself a lot of time by working on the right thing. Working hard, even, if that's what you like to do.Make meaning not movement.
