Shara Thompson explains why including team members’ collective personal values in an agency’s values can increase employee ...

Meredith Dietz is Lifehacker’s Senior Staff Writer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from Northeastern University, where she graduated as valedictorian of her college.

Values are qualities or principles that people consider to be important and wish to personify. Your values represent what you view as most meaningful in life. Values often translate to the standards ...

When most of us think about values, concepts like “justice,” “kindness,” and “courage” come to mind. While values indeed include overarching virtues by which we strive to live, they also encompass ...