By: Tom Glover

Tom Glover — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:10:43 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Gary. I think you are right on when you suggest that hopefully leaders who know their own values will establish operating values in their business, but something that is much more than the stated values stuck up on the wall. I’m planning to examine this in another post later.

By: Gary B. Cohen

Gary B. Cohen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:07 +0000

Firstly I think the opening of your blog is great. It seems to set the tone for the rest of your writing. On the questions of values I applaud you. And the work you did with your MBA students excellent. In my work as an executive coach I believe that one needs to start with leadership of themselves first then leadership of others. And then leadership of the organization. The best place to start is values. It is amazing how you can excellence decision making in an organization if the leader has done an assessment of their values. Eventually, hopefully they will help establish operating values in their business, verses stated values – you know the ones on the wall. I have developed with a team of programmers a value assessment that any one can take at no cost. I did it for my clients and then decided that I could share it with the world. What is amazing to me is which top four values keep coming up. You can see those on the site if your interested. the site is http://www.ceotest.com. The interesting part about listening to feedback from those that take the assessment (seems more like a game) is that how frustrated people get when they have to choose between values. That tension that is created is on purpose. We ask people to do both sorting of their values and prioritizing of their values. In reading your article the exercise you recommend sounds terrific and would be a great follow-up to this assessment because it may enlarge the possible values that the person struggles to define.

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By: Tom Glover

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