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My values
One of the most important things in co-creation, is to understand the values of others.
Dare to dream big
- Great goals could improve our world.
- We could be a reason for positive changes in someone else's life.
- Bigger challenges give more opportunities to learn.
- Discuss own dreams with others. It may inspire them, or an extra pair of hands could be discovered.
- Do things that we could be proud of.
- Solving too hard problems could involve other world best persons.
Drive changes
- To achieve something always do a first step, take an action.
- Don't wait for a lucky moment, create inevitability of positive changes.
- Outlining strategy and executing it.
- Keep goals in mind, to be aware of the remaining part.
- Be an example of a person of action.
- Prepare contingency plan.
- Don't wait for consensus. Consent is usually good enough.
Daily create a better version of yourself
- Big challenges may require obtaining new skills or modifying your own mindset. Be brave to change yourself.
- Reflect on accomplishments and failures.
- Read books.
- Allocate time every week, to gain new skills and competences.
- Lifelong learning is fun, if it comes from inside. Do experiments to learn new things.
- Challenge our team members to grow.
Play as a team
- Together we could solve most of the world's challenges.
- Don't sacrifice ourselves for the team, our team will need us in the next endeavor.
- Help people in our team to grow and be successful.
- Don't be afraid to be vulnerable from others. They will betray you. Get over and move on - there are many kind people on our planet.
- Support and encourage people in their strong parts, cover their backs.
Notice and cancel bad processes
- Describe processes in written form.
- Processes are here to reduce the uncertainty and simplify work, they should not become rituals.
- If something doesn't work, discuss if it is still required.
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
- The world is changing constantly, and old ways of working may become inefficient or even harmful.
- Review the processes, even if they are working well.
- Visualize changes in the processes.
Solve problems instead of closing tickets
- Don't do just “my part of work”, always look how it will be integrated with other things.
- Work is done, when it is accepted by stakeholders, and they receive certain value from it.
- Think of what is the real problem, even if our customer is unaware of it.
Share knowledge with others
- To share any knowledge, first obtain it. Listen carefully.
- Share facts, not gossip.
- Share knowledge in a structured way, preferably in written form.
- Keep meeting notes and decisions.
- Draw pictures and diagrams to support the message we want to share.
- Share knowledge, even before anyone requested it. Other people could be unaware to ask.
- Protect the sensitive information.
Absorb good values and avoid bad ones from others
- Our values are changing over time. Are we in charge of them?
- There are many great personalities around us, what could we learn from them to become better?
- Think of what good we could absorb, from every person we like or dislike.
- “The greatest prison people may build for themselves - is the fear of what other people think.”
- People can't change their values often.
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