CORE Guiding Principles of Asher Bond Ventures

A handy acronym for keeping me out of the wrong type of trouble.

C is for Care: Take care of people.
O is for Ownership: Take ownership of getting the hard parts right.
R is for Rationale: Do the right things for the right reasons.
E is for Essentials: Focus on the needs. Go where the need is greatest.

These guiding principles facilitate the following outcomes:

• Autonomy: Teams can decide more autonomously. (Less decision paralysis, more dynamic, autonomous problem solving by the team).
• Better Decisioning through Diversity of Perspectives: Since the whole team can have something to say about a decision, there’s a vote in there. Sure some votes count more than others, but every vote counts in this culture and every decision invites a fuller spectrum of perspectives from team members who are now involved in informing and influencing decisions.
• More good surprises and less bad surprises around influence. The power of influence works to the team’s advantage. Influence is no longer a hidden elephant in the room or game of thrones game. Influence is better as a team sport. It’s riskier as a lone wolf decider who is uninformed.
• Decision Provenance: I kind of made up the term, sorry if there’s a better way to say it. People know who made a decision, therefore, they could easily know what the rationale for the decision was. The culture must be such that I’m accountable to people for my decisions and I have to answer for them. People get the why, how, and the who. When this is intuitive it gives a lot more purpose to every day work, especially when some of that every day work turns into every night work during a crunch. Taking ownership of a hard decision and getting it right means taking care of people who are affected by that decision and making sure stakeholder needs are met.