Values-Based Leadership For Dummies
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Values-based leadership really is a business proposition. It’s the animation of what you believe is important and it leads to profitability. The following lists describe how values-based leadership relates to the four quadrants of business.

How the company does business is done in a healthy environment built on mutual respect:

  • Establishing the rules of engagement (a values statement)
  • Building an authentic company culture
  • Creating a healthy workplace
  • Developing relationships with vendors and resources
How the company serves and impacts the community is a representation of cooperation:
  • Engaging in philanthropic corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • Engaging in economic corporate social responsibility
  • Reminding employees that what they do matters to improve the customer’s life
  • Supporting stakeholders’ families with fair wages
How the company invests in others illustrates both nurturing and sustainability:
  • Recruiting and retaining the best talent
  • Establishing a culture of learning
  • Creating values partnerships with vendors and resources
  • Building human resource programs and initiatives
How the company becomes sustainable in business creation depends on elements and outcomes of the prior three areas:
  • Solving problems creatively
  • Reinventing processes and business models
  • Addressing global human needs
  • Circling back around to investment, serving, and how we do business

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Maria Gamb is the founder and CEO of the coaching and training company NMS Communications. She is a regular contributor to Forbes, addressing women in leadership. In addition to values-based leadership, she specializes in team collaboration and gender intelligence and communication.

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