This document outlines the core values and principles of Sage Credo, which focuses on sustainability through innovation in used technology. It emphasizes focusing on stakeholders in order of importance: the planet, customers, colleagues, communities, suppliers, and shareholders. It values diversity, creativity, accountability, mastery, execution, transparency, respect, communication, judgment, integrity, and serving the greater good over self-interest. It stresses continuous growth, adaptability, openness, positivity, and ensuring work and life are both enjoyable and fulfilling for employees.

1. Sage Credo
Our Code for Good Work

2. Our Mission
To make the world more sustainable
by creating new value for used
technology through innovation and
redesign for longer life.
We will achieve our mission by focusing on
who we work with, and how we work
together.

3. Who We’re Working For, in order of
Importance:
• The Planet
• Customers
• Colleagues
• Our communities
• Suppliers
• Our shareholders
First, Who We’re Working For:
(in this order)
• The Planet
• Customers
• Colleagues
• Our communities
• Suppliers
• Our shareholders

4. Who We Are:
We are building a
diverse global team of
top performers who
demonstrate:
• Creativity and
initiative;
• Commitment to our
mission, and;
• Personal
accountability for
business results.

5. Everyone a Master
Every team member, and every
assignment, must be strategic to
our mission. You must develop
mastery of your domain to
ensure:
• All our work adds value to our
stakeholders;
• Our business runs efficiently
and delivers quality results;
• We are continuously
improving.

6. The Skill of Doing
Our vision to change the world depends on each team member’s
mastery of their domain, their creativity, and their personal
accountability for results.
But there can be no accountability for results without
execution—the essential discipline everyone must learn and
practice.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
--Thomas A. Edison

7. Transparency + Metrics
Execution and personal accountability for business
results is supported by metrics and transparency.
We measure relentlessly and share the data. You must
be comfortable being known by your accomplishments.
Metrics are the tools we use to build upon the
foundation of our mission.

8. Innovation
Innovation is our strategy for adding value and growing.
We depend on your creativity to make new good things
happen.
You will thrive here if you are comfortable:
• Boldly sharing ideas that might sound stupid at first;
• Being open to others’ ideas;
• Failing fast and small;
• Adjusting and persisting;
• Taking personal accountability for results;
• Spreading the credit around when a good thing comes
together.
Innovation
You will thrive here if you are comfortable:
• Boldly sharing ideas that might sound
stupid at first;
• Being open to others’ ideas;
• Failing fast and small;
• Adjusting and persisting;
• Taking personal accountability for
results;
• Spreading the credit around when a
good thing comes together.
Innovation is our strategy for adding value
and growing. We depend on your creativity
to make new good things happen.

9. Respect comes first.
Every door is open.
Everyone is available to
anyone in the company.
Open, honest, clear and
direct communication
with one another is a
source of our strategic
advantage.
Access and Communication

10. All Bosses Are Stupid
It’s true, eventually--sorry.
We rely on you to know what’s best in your domain—to
speak up, and to fight for our stakeholders’ interests. You
must be comfortable “managing up” with our leaders,
because YOU are personally accountable for business
results.
Open, honest, clear and direct communication with our
leaders is another source of strategic advantage.

11. Our Policies Are Simple:
• Use good judgment.
• Act with integrity.
• Keep your promises (or make it right in advance).
• Respect everyone.
• Serve the greater good
– Team > Self
– Company > Team
– Customer > Company
– Mission > Customer

12. We don’t have a policy for that:
Everyone must be master of their domains, and be
personally accountable for business results. We therefore
don’t have specific policies for:
• The hours you work
• Where you work
• Who you work with
• The vacation(s) you take
• How to best protect the interests of the Stakeholders.
We expect you to always use good judgment.
If you find this kind of personal accountability and
freedom empowering, you belong here.

13. Compensation
If your primary motivation is
money, you don’t belong
here.
That said, our best people
will be top-tier earners
relative to the market for
their skills, experience, and
positions.
Every team member will
share in the success of our
business.

14. Work-Life Balance
Work+Life. It’s not either/or.
We believe that both should be
enjoyable and fulfilling.
Fulfillment at work requires a
commitment to our mission and
achieving results. We appreciate that
this requires the support of others in
your life.
We know meeting your life
commitments requires our support,
including soccer games, anniversary
dinners, and sick kids. We want you to
be accountable for personal results, too.

15. Sharpening the Saw
Where do you want to be in five years? This
is not a hypothetical question.
Everyone is expected to grow continuously—
professionally and personally.
And our leaders are responsible for helping
you define and achieve your goals.

16. People who are creative,
committed, accountable. (We
already covered that.)
People who are adaptable,
who are comfortable with
change;
Open people;
Positive people.
We don’t think you can be
happy in life--or be a great
employee--if you don’t love
your job.
Who will
love it
here?

18. Credo
Our Code for Good Work
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