[wpietri]

This is beautiful: "If I’m presented with statements I cannot realistically disagree with – We Will Behave With Utmost Integrity – I feel there’s something wrong. If it’s all pro and no con, it’s a con."

That's advice for life.

[joshfraser]

It reminded me of Mark Zuckerberg's quote that "values are only useful if they're controversial".

[DanBC]

Eh, they're useful if you're changing a culture or if your organisation exists within a larger framework.

For example, the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust (a Mental Heath trust for Gloucestershire and Hereford) has trust values. The first is "Seeing things from the service user's perspective". This sounds uncontroversial and obvious hut many people (clinicians (in and out of MH); social workers; police; teachers; etc) who come into contact with people with MH problems are ignorant to the point of bigotry and so it's a useful value to have, to remind staff that often people who are saying odd things are not doing so as a function of illness, but because it is their actual lived experience.

One quick examples:

When I say I don't think Heath House Hospital in Bristol ("Bristol Priory") is safe partly because of the Robert Mugabe torturer it sounds like a feature of illness. But actually, Heath House hospital did employ someone who had illegally entered the UK and was using forged documents, and that person used to work for Mugabe as a torturer.