This document outlines the values of Buffer's company culture. It began as a work in progress in February 2013 when Buffer had 7 employees. The values are based on Dale Carnegie's book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and include always choosing positivity, defaulting to transparency, being open-minded, focusing on self-improvement, having no ego, prioritizing clarity, making time to reflect, and living smarter instead of harder. Each value is then further defined by principles and guidelines for how employees can uphold that value.
While researching LinkedIn for the Buffer, I found several videos with a very different and uplifting stance on their environment culture and expectations. This one, is one of my favorites. :) Enjoy!!
Vaffle is a young startup which strongly believes that a good culture is also a key in building a successful startup.
Thanks to bufferapp.com for their slides.
Catch us on Twitter @vaffledotin
While researching LinkedIn for the Buffer, I found several videos with a very different and uplifting stance on their environment culture and expectations. This one, is one of my favorites. :) Enjoy!!
Vaffle is a young startup which strongly believes that a good culture is also a key in building a successful startup.
Thanks to bufferapp.com for their slides.
Catch us on Twitter @vaffledotin
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Read more about our values and approach to business at http://open.bufferapp.com
Your Wish Is Your Command (Powerpoint presentation)Eric Patel
This is a PowerPoint slide deck based on the audio CD series called Your Wish Is Your Command by Kevin Trudeau. The slide's contents come directly from the CDs as I listened to them and contain the important points made during the program. I corresponded with Kevin via Twitter and he suggested that I post my presentation to slideshare.
You cannot always rely on others to encourage you.You must rely on your own motivation to get you through. Lack of self motivation at that time could lead to depression and failure.
Allen Baler Shares The Importance of Communication Allen Baler
Every leader has their own specific type of communication style. Regardless of their communication style, there should be a few specifics that are always apparent. Take a look at these necessary traits/
The PPT is used for Motivational and Personal effectiveness training.
It is an adaptation from the book 7 Habits of Highly effective people ... Author : Stephen covey.
Buffer culture 0.6 (With a change to Be a No Ego Doer)Buffer
This is the 6th evolution of the cultural values we try to live to at Buffer. Read more about our values and approach to business at http://open.bufferapp.com
This is the 4th evolution of the cultural values we try to live to at Buffer.
Read more about our values and approach to business at http://open.bufferapp.com
Being Positive is very important part of success. Being positive in difficult time is extremely important for peaceful life and keeping our faith intact is more important. This positive thinking will bring success to you.
Quran 39:53 - Despair Not Mercy of Allah.
Quran : 13:23 Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.
Quran : “Indeed, after hardship there is ease” (94:6)
Quran : My Mercy encompasses every thing ( 7:156)
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We live once. Time never stops. It keeps running. Don’t let your job hamper your life. Always do what you love. Do it with passion then success will be always ahead sooner or later.
Plan, plan again and always plan.
We live once. Time never stops. It keeps running. Don’t let your job hamper your life. Always do what you love. Do it with passion then success will be always ahead sooner or later.
Plan, plan again and always plan.
2. Always a work in progress
• As with everything we do and ourselves,
this document is a continual work in
progress.
• Updated February 22nd, 2013.
3. Start with why
Culture: what gives Buffer the best chance
for progress of the product, happiness of
users and the team, and personal growth
while part of the journey?
4. The foundation of our
values
In the founding months, Joel & Leo read, re-
read and internalized Dale Carnegie’s famous
book, How To Win Friends and Influence
People. A lot of the Buffer values are derived
from his deeply impactful words.
In January 2013, when Buffer was 7 people,
we discussed what words define the culture
we have, and put together this document.
5. The 8 Buffer Values
• Always choose positivity and happiness
• Default to transparency
• Have a focus on self improvement
• Be a "no ego" doer
• Be open to having your mind changed
• Have a bias towards clarity
• Make time to reflect
• Live smarter, not harder
6. Always choose positivity
and happiness
• You always approach things in a positive and optimistic way.
• You never criticize or condemn team members or users.
• You never complain.
• You let the other person save face, even if they are clearly
wrong.
• You are deliberate about giving genuine appreciation.
7. Default to transparency
• You take pride in opportunities to share our beliefs, failures,
strengths and decisions.
• You use transparency as a tool to help others.
• You always state your thoughts immediately and with
honesty.
• You share early, with a focus on avoiding secrecy of shifts in
direction.
8. Be open to having your
mind changed
• You seek first to understand, then to be understood.
• You are suggestive rather than instructive, replacing phrases
such as ‘certainly’, ‘undoubtedly’, etc. with ‘perhaps’, ‘I think’,
‘my intuition right now’.
• You truly walk in the other person’s shoes by asking that
extra question to find out more than you normally would.
• You take the approach that everything is a hypothesis and
you could be wrong.
9. Have a focus on self
improvement
• You are conscious of your current level of productivity and
happiness, and make continual changes to grow.
• You have a higher expectation of yourself, than Buffer does of
you.
• You regularly and deliberately do things that make you feel
uncomfortable.
• You practice activities and develop habits that will improve
your mind and your body.
10. Be a "no ego" doer
• You don't attach your personal self to ideas.
• You let others have your best ideas.
• You approach new ideas thinking “what can we do right
now?”
• You are humble.
• You always ship code the moment it is better than what is
live on our site – no matter what.
11. Have a bias towards clarity
• You talk, code, design and write in a clear way instead of
being clever
• You over-communicate, repeating things more times than you
would intuitively
• You use more words to explain, even if it feels obvious
already
• You don’t make assumptions, you instead ask questions to
have the full picture
12. Make time to reflect
• You deliberately find time for reflection, because that’s where
your life-changing adjustments come from
• You have a calm approach to discussions and ponder points
in your own time
• You find time to jump out of the trenches into the higher
level thinking that will move the needle
• You understand the value of patience and treat it as a muscle
which needs practice to grow
13. Live smarter, not harder
• You value waking up fresh over working that extra hour
• You always aim to be fully engaged in an activity, or resting
• You single task your way through the day
• You are at the top of your game, as you focus on expanding
capacity of your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual
energy
• You choose to be at the single place on Earth where you are
the happiest and most productive, and you are not afraid to
find out where that is