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Centro Culture Questionnaire
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Are you interested in cultivating a Centro engineering culture? | |
1) How does culture drive performance? | |
2) What is culture worth? | |
3) What processes in an organization affect culture? | |
What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of and why? (at Centro) | |
What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of and why? (outside Centro) | |
Of the teams you have worked on in your career: | |
- What has motivated you to give everything you have? Do you have that same motivation here? If not, what is lacking? | |
- What qualities of a team did you feel where noteworthy? | |
- What did you brag about to your friends/family? | |
- Why did you worked exhaustively long hours for a team? | |
- What qualities have you seen that you wouldn't want advertised on a billbaord? | |
- Make you feel separated from the team? | |
- Make you question the "leader" of the team? | |
- When you have left a job, what were the reasons for not staying? | |
- Have you ever felt put off by a colleague? | |
- What are a couple of things to change about the team if you had 3 wishes? | |
- What does our team value based on the behavior of it's member? | |
- What values do you feel should adopt? | |
- What values do you feel we should drop? | |
- What makes you proud to work at this company? | |
- How does the organization support your professional development and career growth? | |
- Is risk-taking encouraged, and what happens when people fail? | |
- What role do company values play in hiring and performance reviews? | |
- What’s one thing you would change about the company if you could? | |
Executive leaders communicate the clear expectation that teamwork and collaboration are expected. | |
Executives model teamwork in their interaction with each other and the rest of the organization. | |
The organization members talk about and identify the value of a teamwork culture. | |
Teamwork is rewarded and recognized | |
Important stories and folklore that people discuss within the company emphasize teamwork. | |
The performance management system places emphasis and value on teamwork. | |
Leadership: | |
- What are qualities you like in Centro's leadership? What makes you question their leadership? | |
Centro Manifesto: What are some of the sections where we have lived up to it? Where have we come up short? Suggestions for doing better? | |
What has brought you joy? | |
What are habits, qualities, or attributes of persons you admire, respect, or inspire you? Or that you just want cultivate in your own life? | |
What companies would you like to work for? What is it about those companies that drive you to feel this way? | |
COMMITMENT (to a higher cause, purpose, other) | |
RESPONSIBILITY (accept your role) | |
ACCOUNTABILITY (give and take critique) | |
INTEGRITY (gap between say and do) | |
RESPECT (game, opponent, self, coach, team) | |
TRUST (self, others, coach) | |
LEADERSHIP (everyone's work) | |
COURAGE/COMPASSION - twins (give) | |
SERVICE (sacrifice/suffering) | |
HUMILITY (others get credit, gratitude and thankfulness) | |
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Zappos Family Core Values | |
As we grow as a company, it has become more and more important to explicitly define the core values from which we develop our culture, our brand, and our business strategies. These are the ten core values that we live by: | |
Deliver WOW Through Service | |
Embrace and Drive Change | |
Create Fun and A Little Weirdness | |
Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded | |
Pursue Growth and Learning | |
Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication | |
Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit | |
Do More With Less | |
Be Passionate and Determined | |
Be Humble |
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