As a small business owner, I disregarded the importance of core values until we made our first hiring mistake. At the time, we were a close-knit team of four employees. We hired a fifth employee that ...

In the business world, values are standards of conduct that a company wants each member of the organization to follow. Top management seeks to establish a corporate culture in which certain values are ...

A CEO client mentioned to me that an employee had been disrespectful to her in an all-hands meeting. He called her out in public for being late to a meeting, and challenged her when she defended ...

Core values serve as guiding principles that shape our attitudes, actions, and decisions. According to psychological research, values are fundamental beliefs that guide our choices and behaviors. They ...

Dave Foster is CEO of AvreaFoster, a brand and marketing agency that helps B2B companies use the power of their brand to grow business. In the beginning—before your business became a business—it was ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

Most of our routine behaviors are not conscious choices. They’re either habits that run on autopilot, or they result from tacit judgments. Making conscious behavior choices in our long-term ...