Pride test

A simple test to see if you are doing the right work for you:

• Do you feel proud about the company you work for and the people you work with?
• Do people you work with express their respect for what you do and how you do it?
• What do your friends and family think about the products and services you make and sell?
• Would you encourage your children to work for your company?
• Would you encourage them to do your job?

Pride builds with the following practices:

• Clarify what matters and why
• Celebrate the steps as much as the results
• Walk the talk
• Draw on values and attitudes that matter to your people
• Have a simple and compelling mission or goal
• Hire, promote and reward those that live the values and the goal

Pride breaks with:

• Break up a winning team
• Ignore local initiatives
• Cut costs in all the wrong places
• Insist on inflexible rules
• Try to 'buy' pride

People will not criticize you for a decision you take but for the way you took that decision