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Putting Your Core Values To The Test

Putting Your Core Values To The Test
October 14, 2015 | Posted by Sean Evans on Culture, Strategy / Tagged: accountability, core values, culture, leadership, strategy | 0 comments

Congratulations! You’ve taken a step that so few companies seem to care about and yet is so important in successfully scaling up. You’ve taken the time to articulate your Core Values. Now that you’ve done the heavy lifting, you can sit back and watch the benefits rolling. Right? Wrong. Developing your Core Values is just the start. What comes next is both hard work and fun work. ...

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What Are Core Values? Do They Matter?

What Are Core Values? Do They Matter?
September 22, 2015 | Posted by Sean Evans on Culture, People, Strategy / Tagged: core purpose, core values, culture, people, purpose, strategy | 0 comments

Bring up the idea of core values and reactions ranges from, “This flaky stuff isn’t important to our business,” all the way to, “Our success is dependent on them.” So are they important? Do they matter? In a word…absolutely. I believe that the building blocks of any company is its core ideology, which in turn is comprised of two parts – Purpose and Core Values. ...

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

How Well Do You Know Your Customer?
October 3, 2014 | Posted by Sean Evans on Strategy / Tagged: amazon, core customer, customer, inside advantage, strategy | 0 comments

All in all, I’m a fairly relaxed and unflappable person. This is something many of the people that I work with value. In the whirlwind of their lives, I am proud that I can be their calm in the eye of the storm. It helps them re-centre, see what’s really going on, and refocus on what’s important. Every once in a while, though, I get ...

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What is Strategy? It’s the “How.”

What is Strategy? It’s the “How.”
April 14, 2013 | Posted by Sean Evans on Strategy / Tagged: apple, simon sinek, start with why, strategy | 0 comments

Ask a simple question, get a complicated answer. Or rather, get a long list of different answers. Strategy is a word that gets easily bandied around, yet rarely have I heard a clear, simple, straightforward definition. I’m not talking about building a strategy. There’s a lot that goes into doing so and it can be hard work. I’m talking about explaining what strategy is, to someone ...

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