We’ve always believed that forming a strategy is impossible until your clear on what your values and principles are. Without values and principles to guide you, making decisions can seem impossibly difficult. Given how important setting values and principles is to decision making we asked folks we admire to tell us about the values or principles that matter most to them.

Kazia Ginsberg | Potter and Progressive Educator

Well, I’m very driven by my mood and energy level – which can be hard as a creator who works as a full time teacher otherwise! My feeling is that I do this first and foremost for myself. I find pleasure in the act of creating and there is a different pleasure had by seeing something through to completion.  Read more>>

Nianrui Jiang | Traditional painter/illustrator

My most basic value and principle is to be peaceful and happy. As an ordinary person, earning money should be for the abundance and happiness, being with family should be for the happiness and belonging, falling in love with someone should be for romance and joy; and as an artist, creating art should be for the pleasure too. Read more>>

Carol Williams | Executive Director, Interval House & Founder, International Institute Against Violence

One of Interval House’s core values is to do whatever it takes to make things possible for our clients. We always try to think outside the box. We fight for what we believe in. We believe that anything and everything is possible. I have never been known to play it safe, and I think all of our staff take pride in the fact that we are willing to take risks. Read more>>