What motivated Old Mutual to start working with values? In 2010, post the Financial crisis, we articulated a new vision which was a customer-centric vision, putting the customer back into the centre of our reason for being as a financial services organisation. That caused us to revisit our values that had been around for probably […]
In January 2012 I had a stroke while exercising in the gym. As the symptoms progressed during my admission, it occurred to me that the whole experience was funny: a bit like being drunk – slurring speech and difficulty controlling walking. I woke up the next morning and found that my right side was paralysed […]
I can’t imagine a life without values and I feel the actual worldwide need of a values driven society. A child without values is like a bird without wings. An adult without values is like a zebra without lines. Living and working without values is like eating soup with a fork. Values are for my […]
How have you developed values resilience so when you have faced a challenge to your values you have still lived them in your behaviour and speech? It is important that we engage with our values at every moment of our lives. By doing so, we integrate our inner spiritual life with outer actions. This enables […]
We all experience times of ease and times of hardship. Our initial preference is always for the moments of life that feel immediately wonderful. But moments of hardship offer a path of building resilience if we can learn to embrace them, as opposed to resist them. It is the ability to recover and grow stronger […]
We all want to live true to our values, to be happy, and have our dreams fulfilled. Yet, when you look around you, many people live joyless lives that are not in alignment with their values. Perhaps this is because life is not easy – it’s often difficult. It’s only when we truly understand and […]
It takes time to name our values, yet this is just the first step. Living our values takes conscious work. Being true to them in our behaviour when a challenge comes is not always easy and needs resilience. We would like to hear stories of your resilience when your values have been challenged. How have […]
“We live in a materialistic culture. We value above all, material things. The word “culture” comes from the Latin word “culte”, which means “to worship,” that which one values more than anything else. So in a materialistic culture one worships material things. One could say that the “temples” of materialistic culture are the shopping centre […]
On 10.4.15, the UK Values Alliance launched a campaign entitled ‘UK GENERAL ELECTION 2015 – A FOCUS ON VALUES’. We emailed parliamentary candidates and party leaders about this with a request to complete 3 key values related questions: 1. What are your five highest priority/core values as an individual standing to become an MP? 2. […]
There is a growing consensus in Britain on the importance of character, and on the belief that the virtues that contribute to good character are part of the solution to many of the challenges facing modern society. Parents, teachers and schools understand the need to teach basic moral virtues to pupils, such as honesty, self-control, […]
