Thinking About Values

1 · Ben McCormick · June 2, 2019, 7:24 p.m.
As a way to help myself grow in my first year as a manager, I’ve been working through Google’s New Manager Training which they have generously published online. One exercise that stood out to me was a “values selection” process, where they encourage managers to select a ranked list of 5-10 words that resonate with them as values from a list of around 400 “values words”. Choosing values is an odd process, because you’re choosing between “goods”. When I first went through this sheet, I cir...