# Chapter 272

As a leader, you must live the values of the organization. - Masterminds

Actually if you want to be the leader at the organization, then the values of the org are sacrosanct. And if you want the values to grow and take root and expand across the company or church or neighborhood then you would bode well to actually have these values as YOUR values. That is by far the easiest solution, because then you will just live out those values everyday and others can follow. Otherwise you have to decide over and over to follow this value or that value or remember that you are following this set of values or that set of values. This is a difficult way to live honestly. Either you have the values or share the values of the organization or church or community or you don’t.

So perhaps our statement of the day should read, “as a leader, find an organization with values which you resonate with and can live everyday.” This is by far the right way to live and the less disruptive and the most natural. Then you can further those values by being true to them. Otherwise leave. Leave now. I did. You should. In my previous org their primary value was to be quiet and be grateful for their meager offerings. My primary value is to be free from the worry of finances and be free to say what I think and not be quiet. Yeah exactly, it was time for me to leave. You can’t live the values of the org if you don’t have the values of the org.