Values, Virtues, and Virtuosity by Geoff Marlow.

 
Many people believe an organisation’s culture to be its shared values, despite this notion having been plucked out of thin air by McKinsey more than 40 years ago.

Part of what makes the myth of culture as shared values so sticky is that it plays on our intuition that living in line with our personal values is key to a meaningful, authentic life.

But how do personal values square with organisational values?

Does defining the latter help or inhibit us from living the former?

What about virtues? Where do these fit in?

How well do you know your own personal values, your virtues, and how to achieve virtuosity in living your life?

Join this week’s DD to explore above with fellow pioneers.

Geoff Marlow began his career as a digital systems engineer with British Aerospace and the BBC, before moving to the open innovation services lab Cambridge Consultants Ltd (CCL), where he ran the Digital Systems Group.

When a CCL client asked: "Could you come and make our people behave more like your people?" it launched the career path Geoff’s been on ever since, helping clients create future-fit organisational cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

He worked with Peter Senge and Arie de Geus on the Board of the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) and with former UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen on the Board of the Daedalus Trust, established to address and ameliorate negative personality changes associated with the exercise of power – a.k.a. “Hubris Syndrome”.

He regularly publishes on the Create a Future-Fit Culture Substack channel.