- SELFLESSNESS: Embrace the idea of “We, then me.” Serve the team first.
- ENTHUSIASM: Enjoy what you do and celebrate who you are and what you stand for. Expect the same from others.
- TRUST: Have faith in your partners. Just do the right thing, every time. Take care of one another.
- RESPECT: Communicate with transparency and integrity at all times.
- TENACITY: Have enduring passion for excellence. Fall forward.
- PROGRESSIVENESS: Be curious beyond the obvious. The most interesting people have great listening skills. Ask, listen, learn, grow… contribute.
- ENTREPRENEURIAL: Build something meaningful for the company. Create value.
- BALANCE: Stay focused on what matters most in life and business. Be healthy, be fit, be happy.
- OWNERSHIP: This is your company, run with it. Be proud of it and take care of it.
- EGO: Check it at the door. Get over yourself and start giving yourself.
- PERSISTENCE: Energy and persistence carry the day.
- LEADERSHIP: Lead, don’t manage. Learn to delegate but inspect what you expect.
o Value People
o Praise Effort
o Reward Performance - HIRING: Hire the best; Set expectations, encourage with words and actions – then get out of the way. Hiring good people is hard; hiring great people is brutally hard.
- RISK: Embrace – risk is a major key in achieving success. Remember the words “I would rather try something great and fail than try nothing great and succeed.”
- CANDOR: Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and limits good people from contributing all they can.
o First: Candor gets more people in the conversation
o Second: Candor generates speed
o Third: Candor cuts costs“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
-Vince Lombardi“Nothing is ever gained by winning an argument and losing a customer.”
-C.F. Norton“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
-Theodore Roosevelt“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
-Phil Knight“Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill