Increasingly convinced manifestos and codes of conduct are mostly for people who secretly want to avoid the grunt work of actually building organizations. They’re as bad as free-marketers. Thinking Values can do all the heavy lifting is the same as thinking Prices can do it all.
If they’re implicit they’re not in my crosshairs. I’m focusing on the soecufuc format, not the content.
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I definitely find defining these explicitly to be pragmatically useful tools. My team are always referencing/calling out good use of our values as they're designed to create certain behaviors. The Mission/Vision succinctly define our long-term focus / strategic approach.
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I still think that manifestos are useful on a systemic basis though. It's true doers often don't write them, but some read them. Like Marx vs. Lenin - we remember the former's manifesto and the latter's revolution - even though they both did writing and activism.
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I find writing manifestos useful for gathering thoughts and inspiring a team / community. Then I read my first public one and hard cringe over it LOL
@bruces gave me a hard time over it haha, but he did read it!https://www.ponoko.com/blog/2009/09/28/the-cloudfab-manifesto/ … - Show replies
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