Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Birkenhead, Community, New Zealand
Just when it seems everyone everywhere is talking about their big lives … big ideas … big successes … I passed a local charity shop – near where I live – that enchanted me for its small statement of genuine pride.
This.
I love it.
I love it is for a window display.
I love it celebrates it was commended, rather than won.
I love it was for the local Carnival event rather than a national competition.
I love it was signed by the head judge.
I love it because I know the people who run the store will be proud as punch for it.
Because it shows they have been recognised for caring about what they do and who they serve.
Not for likes or follows or to hype up their achievements to others in an invisible competition that doesn’t matter or count … but because they are simply committed to their community.
I’ve written about where I live before … and while it’s not big or cool, it’s real and true and has more sense of belonging than any organisations who loves to brag about their company culture or NPS scores.
Because ultimately my community knows what organisations don’t …
Culture is made not mandated.
Sure the top may enable, but it’s the people who create it.
Which is why big statements spouted on Linkedin and industry press may get the headlines.
But it’s the small acts of genuineness that gets the pride.