Owning our own zero carbon electricity generation is a robust long-term financial strategy as well as a values-driven sustainability strategy.
Being a values-based leader committed to doing the right thing (which I wrote about here) is relatively easy when things are going well.
As a values-based leader, you can rely on the four principles to help you quiet your own emotional reactions and minimize fear and worry.
The single-minded focus on making money turns out to be less successful in making money than a values-based approach that gives the customers what they really want.
Employees want freedom from command and control bosses and task-based jobs and freedom to contribute their character and creativity and collaborative spirit in pursuit of a values-based mission worthy of their dedication.
They believe Clinton's judges are a salient issue with Republican women concerned about crime and values, and the gas-tax repeal is aimed at mostly male and commuting independents across the U.S. "We have a social issue teed up, a values issue rolled out, and now we're hitting on economics, " says campaign manager Scott Reed.
"A franchise system would likely create a system that values a franchise more than the need to perform each week at the racetrack, " says Brian France.
But that doesn't add up to a set of values, a belief system or a vision of what America can or should be, like the visions offered by the two presidents who most reshaped the political landscape in the last century, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
It happened again very publicly just last week, when Chris Lee, a family values Republican congressman from upstate New York, discovered it wasn't such a great idea to respond to a woman's Craigslist personal ad by e-mailing her a photo of himself, shirtless, using his own real name but claiming he was a lobbyist (and "a very fit fun classy guy" too).
For example, a new client could present a huge sales opportunity but require a significant values compromise.
Such a system values the weight of products (think: cans, soda) over the quality and nutrition of food.
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Good leaders matter, but you need a positive values culture in order to attract the best leaders to compete effectively.
Both candidates are emphasizing their faith in a state where social values are a big part of the political debate.
Working with my colleagues at the Salt Lake Chamber we started to strategically talk about immigration in a more values-based way.
Most organizational cultures, or understandings of what a company values and how things are done, are established by top management and cascade throughout the company.
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There are a number of other issues where emotions get in the way of reason, and get in the way of achieving the goals a client values.
With a little hands-on skills training, he or she could end up being the better ad sales generator because he or she is a better values fit.
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The system would need smart reconciliation that (a) values all these items in standardized terms and (b) automatically matches what we have with what the payee seeks and accepts.
To delight customers, a radically different kind of management needs to be in place, with a different role for the managers, a different way of coordinating work, a different set of values and a different way of communicating.
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The Catholic Education Service for England and Wales said it supported the priority given to establishing a "values context" for all sex and relationships teaching, the recognition of the importance of the role of parents, and the clear expectation that lessons would be shaped by Catholic teaching.
The bigger question is, how do we build a culture that values intellectual and artistic activity at a higher level, and where people are invited and expected to challenge and improve their own capabilities?
Even if your business is very small, a small business bank values you as a customer.
This one actually targets a real set of economic values over a scarce resource.
But since it is also seen as a financial asset, higher values are a signal to buy.
It is also a dream scenario for a New York expat who values keeping a foot on each continent.
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Only when a city has the right values can a start-up common grow.
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Those French voters that said non to the European constitution do not want to bury the idea of a union based on common values and a certain political consensus, quite the reverse.
The IFS found that pensions achieved lower returns, partly as a result of lower share values as a result of the tax and partly as a result of paying the tax itself when changing which shares were owned in the pension fund.
As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally borne a greater share of this burden than the middle class or those less fortunate.
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