When I make decisions at work, I am mentally programmed and in many/most cases try to find the core value that this step mapped to - from a positive angle. That’s great and I think I should continue doing it. But there’s a flip side that I started thinking about…
Each time I identify the positive values I displayed when doing something, let me pause for 5 seconds and think - did I also impact some other value negatively? Maybe I didn’t. That’s awesome. But maybe I hesitated at times and instantly thought of a value I negatively impacted. And maybe every time, it's the same value that I found myself positively exhibiting or worse still, the same value I was negatively impacting. And if so, I might have been too guilty of being too strong an advocate of some values or too weak an advocate of other values.
But that was still too vague and I wanted to make it a bit more concrete and give myself and everyone else reading this some common anti-core-value-patterns to watch out for, for every single value. This list is not comprehensive by any means [please form your own questions]; but it should help you understand how every value can be incredibly toxic, if taken too far.
