Coaching practices for Value Creation Mechanism Career
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can name the field I want to be in but I can’t actually point to the specific thing I do that someone would reliably pay for
- I’m just a replaceable cog in a machine
- I’m good at the collaborative part — I help grow the deal and everyone’s warm — and then I’m so worried about seeming greedy that I walk away with the short end while they take most of what we built.
- We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table
- I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
Practices that may help
- Identify what drives your economic engine specifically
Name the specific mechanism by which your work creates value that the market will pay for — not just a field, but a mechanism.
The Hedgehog Concept - Commit to a creative contribution that outlasts you
Choose one project, craft, or cause where your specific effort leaves something real in the world.
Frankl’s Three Sources of Meaning - Create value first, then claim your share
Expand the pie before you fight over slices — but don’t forget to take your slice.
Win-Win Thinking: Expanding the Pie - Make core values operational, not decorative
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Map the value system of your organization or team
Identify the vMEME your team or organization actually operates from, not just espouses.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference
Expanding the pie means trading across issues that the two parties value differently, so both sides gain more than any fixed compromise would allow. Malhotra and Bazerman’s research shows that most negotiators leave joint gains on the table because they treat every issue as a zero-sum battle. - Be wary of "if-then" rewards on creative work
Contingent rewards can narrow focus and dull performance on complex tasks.
Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose - Win-Win Thinking: Expanding the Pie
Win-win (integrative) thinking treats negotiation as a chance to create value before dividing it, instead of fighting over a fixed pie (distributive bargaining). By trading across differences in what each side values, both can come out better than a simple compromise — a well-supported idea in negotiation research, though it requires the right conditions to work.
Related concerns
- Value Creation Then Claiming
Expand the pie before you fight over slices — but don’t forget to take your slice.
Create value first, then claim your share
- Creating Value In Negotiation
Expand the pie before you fight over slices — but don’t forget to take your slice.
- Expand The Pie Negotiation
Expanding the pie means trading across issues that the two parties value differently, so both sides gain more than any fixed compromise would allow. Malhotra and Bazerman’s research shows that most negotiators leave joint gains on the table because they treat every issue as a zero-sum battle.
- Expanding The Pie Negotiation Beyond Splitting The Difference After A Loss
Expanding the pie means trading across issues that the two parties value differently, so both sides gain more than any fixed compromise would allow. Malhotra and Bazerman’s research shows that most negotiators leave joint gains on the table because they treat every issue as a zero-sum battle.
- Expanding The Pie Negotiation Beyond Splitting The Difference After A Setback
Expanding the pie means trading across issues that the two parties value differently, so both sides gain more than any fixed compromise would allow. Malhotra and Bazerman’s research shows that most negotiators leave joint gains on the table because they treat every issue as a zero-sum battle.
- Expanding The Pie Negotiation Beyond Splitting The Difference As A Caregiver
Expanding the pie means trading across issues that the two parties value differently, so both sides gain more than any fixed compromise would allow. Malhotra and Bazerman’s research shows that most negotiators leave joint gains on the table because they treat every issue as a zero-sum battle.
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