company-values

Name: company-values
Author: keeea

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How to install company-values?

keeea/minimalist-entrepreneur-skills/company-values

$npx -y skills add keeea/minimalist-entrepreneur-skills --skill company-values

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Summary

Help define company values and culture for a minimalist business. Use when setting up company culture, preparing to hire, or wanting to codify what the company stands for. Based on The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia.

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SKILL.md

1	# Company Values
2
3	Help define company values — the foundation of culture.
4
5	## Core Principle
6
7	Focus on culture before hiring. Before hiring anyone, define what kind of company people want to work for. Values aren't generic two-word commandments — they state the non-obvious, in non-obvious ways.
8
9	## Why Values Matter
10
11	- Tell employees how to behave every day AND in extreme situations
12	- More efficient than 1,000-page manuals — good values stick
13	- Attract the right people and repel the wrong ones (both are valuable)
14	- Let you hold yourself and your team accountable
15	- Values supersede you. They allow the company to scale beyond your involvement.
16
17	## Gumroad's Values (Examples)
18
19	### 1. Judged by the Work
20	- What matters is the experience creators and customers have
21	- "It should be considered a failure to receive feedback on something that could have made a creator's life better AFTER you shipped"
22
23	### 2. Seek Superlinearities
24	- A function that eventually grows faster than any linear one
25	- Every day producing superlinear returns on time investment
26
27	### 3. Everyone is a CEO
28	- You are the CEO of your function
29	- Think like a CEO asking approval from their board, not an employee asking a manager for direction
30
31	### 4. Dare to Be Open
32	- Aim for complete information symmetry
33	- Share financials, disclose salaries. No meetings, no secrets, no FOMO.
34
35	## How to Create Your Own Values
36
37	1. What do you believe that most people don't? Values should be non-obvious, sometimes polarizing.
38	2. How should people behave when no one is watching? Values are for moments without a manager present.
39	3. What would you fire someone for, even if they're performing well? That reveals true values.
40	4. What would you celebrate, even if it didn't help the bottom line? Also a value.
41	5. Write them as stories, not slogans. "Focus on the user" is a slogan. Nordstrom accepting tire returns at a clothing store is a value told through story.
42
43	## Operationalizing Values
44
45	- Communicate publicly — job posts, website, onboarding
46	- Use in feedback: "This aligns with our value of X" / "This doesn't reflect Y"
47	- Revisit regularly — values evolve as the company grows
48
49	## Output
50
51	Help draft:
52	1. 3-5 company values with descriptions and example stories
53	2. How each value shows up in hiring decisions
54	3. How each value shows up in day-to-day work
55	4. Anti-patterns for each value (what it does NOT mean)

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How to install company-values?

keeea/minimalist-entrepreneur-skills/company-values

$npx -y skills add keeea/minimalist-entrepreneur-skills --skill company-values

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Company Values
2
3	Help define company values — the foundation of culture.
4
5	## Core Principle
6
7	Focus on culture before hiring. Before hiring anyone, define what kind of company people want to work for. Values aren't generic two-word commandments — they state the non-obvious, in non-obvious ways.
8
9	## Why Values Matter
10
11	- Tell employees how to behave every day AND in extreme situations
12	- More efficient than 1,000-page manuals — good values stick
13	- Attract the right people and repel the wrong ones (both are valuable)
14	- Let you hold yourself and your team accountable
15	- Values supersede you. They allow the company to scale beyond your involvement.
16
17	## Gumroad's Values (Examples)
18
19	### 1. Judged by the Work
20	- What matters is the experience creators and customers have
21	- "It should be considered a failure to receive feedback on something that could have made a creator's life better AFTER you shipped"
22
23	### 2. Seek Superlinearities
24	- A function that eventually grows faster than any linear one
25	- Every day producing superlinear returns on time investment
26
27	### 3. Everyone is a CEO
28	- You are the CEO of your function
29	- Think like a CEO asking approval from their board, not an employee asking a manager for direction
30
31	### 4. Dare to Be Open
32	- Aim for complete information symmetry
33	- Share financials, disclose salaries. No meetings, no secrets, no FOMO.
34
35	## How to Create Your Own Values
36
37	1. What do you believe that most people don't? Values should be non-obvious, sometimes polarizing.
38	2. How should people behave when no one is watching? Values are for moments without a manager present.
39	3. What would you fire someone for, even if they're performing well? That reveals true values.
40	4. What would you celebrate, even if it didn't help the bottom line? Also a value.
41	5. Write them as stories, not slogans. "Focus on the user" is a slogan. Nordstrom accepting tire returns at a clothing store is a value told through story.
42
43	## Operationalizing Values
44
45	- Communicate publicly — job posts, website, onboarding
46	- Use in feedback: "This aligns with our value of X" / "This doesn't reflect Y"
47	- Revisit regularly — values evolve as the company grows
48
49	## Output
50
51	Help draft:
52	1. 3-5 company values with descriptions and example stories
53	2. How each value shows up in hiring decisions
54	3. How each value shows up in day-to-day work
55	4. Anti-patterns for each value (what it does NOT mean)

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