The place to begin thinking about your business or company is actually from within - because your business will eventually weave who you are through its operations, systems and corporate culture.
To that end, your corporate culture needs clear guidelines from which to make decisions and take action. You must know and define your core operating values for yourself as you build the company.
Your core values do not come from your ego, which is a conglomeration of conscious and unconscious values and beliefs that represent your assumptions about how life is supposed to be… rather, your core values determine the choices you make, the actions you take and the life and business you create.
An interesting point of information about values is that we often live by the values we inherited from our parents, authority figures and childhood socialization.
To know your values, look around you right now – what do you see in the choices you've made and the lifestyle you now live?
