As a leader, I believe it is important for people I work with to know my beliefs. As the leader of a self-organized company, I want to share those beliefs.

I personally believe that:

• people are good in nature and wish to accomplish meaningful goals;
• people truly wish to be successful and should be trusted to achieve success;
• collective intelligence leads to better decisions;
• individuals working together will find the solution to their problems, they know more about their skills, competences and environment than anyone else outside the team;
• long lasting knowledge is best learn through hands-on experience;
• as long as we learn something from the experience, failure is an investment, not an expense;
• true success is achieved when people are in it for the long run;
• a systemic perspective is useful to understand the entire system;
• short term goals are rarely optimal and tend to maximize locally and not globally;
• motivation comes from within, external factor do not really motivate people;
• motivated people deliver better results and are highly contagious;
• no single individual can (and should) be attributed success;
• success attracts successful people;
• you should judge people by their intention not their actions.

What are your beliefs?