Values : How to Bring Values to Life in Your Business

There is no one right or wrong set of values, but there is power and potential in making the most of the right values for your business. Ed Mayo, Secretary General at Co-operatives UK, presents how they can become a natural part of commercial life. With a range of case studies, this book offers practical approaches to make a success of values.

What matters to us? One way of answering that question is through the lens of values, which have a powerful influence on our attitudes and behaviors. Yet it can be difficult for businesses to realize the true potential of values, which is to engage staff, customers and suppliers in an emotional way that touches on their own core motivations.

Drawing on a range of case studies worldwide, including "profit with purpose" businesses such as co-operatives, this short guide reveals how to make a success of values. By unpacking what we mean by values and ethics and setting out a series of practical approaches, Ed Mayo presents how values can become a natural part of commercial life. The book identifies the pitfalls and the potential of bringing values into the heart of an organization, from a bank that responds to an ethical crisis through to a fast-growing worker co-operative founded on the values of equality.

The values that guide your business are not necessarily the ones that are written down or that you would expect. There is no one right or wrong set of values, but there is power and potential in making the most of the values that are right for the business you are in. By reading Values: How to Bring Values to Life in Your Business, you will find out more about the business that you are, and the business that you could be.