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Entrepreneurs Need to Focus on Culture, Not Perks

By Greg Besner — 2015

I like to define culture in terms of a high-performance culture, one that exhibits qualities like communication, collaboration, mission and value alignment, innovation and accountability.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.

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Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett
2025
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Finding More Joy & Purpose Through Core Values

This video offers a simple exercise to help you identify your unique set of core values. Knowing and living by your values is a tremendously helpful tool.

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Tara Mohr
2020
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20:28

Andrew Solomon: How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.

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Andrew Solomon
2014
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The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships

Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community.

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Sobonfu Some
2000
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16:52

Who Are You? Unleashing Your Core Values | Jennifer Jones | TEDxChathamKent

Do you know who you really are, what you stand for and what is fundamental to your personal DNA? These are all questions that Jennifer will cover as part of a discussion about core values. Core Values are the guiding principles that dictate our behaviors and actions.

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2016
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How to Determine Your Core Values | 13 Questions with Dr John Demartini

Understand the difference between values and social idealisms. Knowing your highest values enables you to align your life’s actions with the things that mean the most to you. Not being aware of your highest values makes it exponentially more difficult to create a meaningful, fulfilling life.

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2020
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David Brooks: Should You Live for Your Résumé ... or Your Eulogy?

Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love—the values that make for a great eulogy. Can we balance these two selves? Perhaps, once we know them both.

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2014
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Creating Values in Life: Personal, Moral, Spiritual, Family and Social Values

Unfortunately, very few people these days talk about real values in life. What we stand for in life, and are we living up to these values are worth pondering. Are our aspirations in tune with the real purpose of life? It is the values that remind us often what to aspire in life.

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Ashok Gulla
2010
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Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life

Put your values first and focus on what matters most Despite our good intentions, many of us experience a chronic imbalance between the desire to live our values and the distractions and never-ending to-do lists that can get in the way.

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Harry M. Kraemer Jr.
2020
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