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by barrkel 3262 days ago
I don't think you inverted the values correctly! For example, starting out with these:

• Dedication to every client’s success

• Innovation that matters-for our company and for the world

• Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships

The obvious inversion (to me) is:

• Dedication to every client’s failure

• Innovation that matters to nobody

• Mistrust and lack of responsibility in all relationships

But actually, the positive values as written are contradictory. What if there's a conflict between innovation that matters to the world vs a client's success - which comes first? Both are positive. But these values don't discriminate.

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I didn't introduce the idea of inversion, and if you look through this thread from the top you will see that I used it as defined by the person who introduced it, who called the above inversions (in a sibling comment to yours) "very good."

You might have missed it beecause there are a couple of conversations going on in this thread. Pay attention to the usernames.

Anyway for the inversions, I am playing by that person's rules and following that person's terminology, not simply negating these statements.

Some statements can't be inverted. (For example it's not possible to invert "don't murder your colleagues.")