The New Year is always a time for taking stock – for embracing self-improvement and giving up bad habits. In business, it can also be a time for re-evaluating what we do and how we do it, for reflecting on what we are and who we are. It may result in formal changes to our systems or a new sense of purpose from the organisation’s leadership.
It’s five years now since we launched Apollo, a multi-disciplinary offshore engineering consultancy. Successfully reaching that milestone gives us additional pause for reflection – looking back at how far we have come and ahead to how much further we want to travel. As individuals our staff share a passion for engineering and the challenge now is for us to strive to keep that excitement in our bellies as we mature as an organisation. From the outset our core values have been key to all our activities, filtering through everything we do.
For some businesses, their values are another tick box exercise – a marketing strategy of weasel words designed to soften sharp edges. At Apollo, we want to ensure our core values run through everything we do, like the writing through a stick of seaside rock. Values are important to each of us whether as customers or voters. We appreciate integrity, we boycott those who deceive us, avoiding doing business with those who don’t do what they say they will do.
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By Jonathan D’Arcy, managing director, Apollo