Commitment: An important company value.

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com.

Making a commitment involves dedicating yourself to something. This is one of your most important company values.

Making a commitment obligates another that person to do something, as well. Many companies contract consulting firms. Many companies talk about their important company values. The consultants lean on these and, through rigorous studies, reviews, and establish plans to enact improvements. Then, they never follow through to put in place the recommendations. Why is this? Why put in all that work for nothing? After all, this is an important company value.

I believe that they don’t want to make the changes necessary to make the improvements the company needs.

Too many companies hope that by some stroke of luck, things will improve and they will be the beneficiary of that good fortune. A famous…