At The Table with Patrick Lencioni
212. Virtues, Values and Volition
Jan 31, 2024
Exploring the importance of virtues in organizational life and the role of personal and professional development in cultivating virtues. Exploring hardwired aspects, virtues, and volition at work. The importance of personal and professional development in developing virtues and values. The importance of permission to play values and the negative impact of embracing vices. The connection between virtues and professional development for employees and it benefits companies.
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- Virtuous employees who embody virtues such as humility, kindness, and diligence have a competitive advantage in organizations.
- Aligning personal virtues with company values and embodying and modeling these virtues as a leader creates a virtuous organizational culture.
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The Importance of Developing Virtues
In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss the significance of developing virtues in both personal and professional contexts. They highlight that virtues are not inherent traits but are cultivated through habit and exercise. The seven virtues presented from the Bible are humility, kindness, patience, diligence, charity, and temperance. The hosts emphasize the need for intentional character development in organizations, with virtuous employees being humble, kind, patient, diligent, charitable, and temperate. They also discuss how personal and professional development should start with virtues and how organizations that invest in the development of virtues have a competitive advantage.
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