Another of our values:
The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who get stuff done. While there’s a place for planning, thinking and process it is better to try – and try well – and fail than not to try at all.”
This is an approach I use in lots of my life. Not always, but I do try to get things done, and make a strong effort in doing so. I ask the kids I coach to do the same. The effort is what matters; it’s more important than the outcome. The outcomes matter, but we can accept mistakes.
This is one of those values I think ought to be more prominently displayed and discussed, in most organizations.
I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.