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and analyze rich statistics on how your posts perform.

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The 10 Buffer Values
In Buffer's founding months, Joel and Leo read, re-read and internalized
Dale Carnegie's famous book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Many of the Buffer values are derived from his deeply impactful words.

In January 2013, when Buffer was just 7 people, we discussed what words
define the culture we have and put together this list of the 10 Buffer Values.

As with everything we do at Buffer, this list of values is a continual work in progress.

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1. Always Choose Positivity and Happiness
You always approach things in a positive and optimistic way
You never criticize or condemn team members or users
You never complain
You let the other person save face, even if they are clearly wrong
You are deliberate about giving genuine appreciation

2. Default to Transparency
You take pride in opportunities to share our beliefs, failures, strengths and decisions
You use transparency as a tool to help others
You always state your thoughts immediately and with honesty
You share early in the decision process to avoid "big revelations"

3. Have a Focus on Self Improvement
You are conscious of your current level of productivity and happiness, and make continual changes to grow
You have a higher expectation of yourself than Buffer does of you
You regularly and deliberately do things that make you feel uncomfortable
You practice activites and develop habits that will improve your mind and body

4. Be a "no-ego" Doer
You don't attach your personal self to ideas
You let others have your best ideas
You approach new ideas thinking "what can we do right now?"
You are humble
You always ship code the moment it is better than what is live on our site - no matter what

5. Listen First, Then Listen More
You seek first to understand, then to be understood
You focus on listening rather than responding
You take the approach that everything is a hypothesis and you could be wrong

You are suggestive rather than instructive, replacing phrases such as 'certainly','undoubtedly', etc with 'perhaps', 'I think', 'my intuition right now'
6. Have a Bias Towards Clarity
You talk, code, design and write in a clear way instead of being clever
You over-communicate, repeating things more times than you would intuitively
You use more words to explain, even if it feels obvious already
You don't make assumptions, you instead ask that extra question to have the full picture

7. Make Time to Reflect
You deliberately find time for reflection, because that's where your life-changing adjustments come from
You have a calm approach to discussions and ponder points in your own time
You find time to jump out of the trenches into the higher level thinking that will move the needle
You understand the value of patience and treat it as a muscle which needs practice to grow

8. Live Smarter, Not Harder
You value waking up fresh over working that extra hour
You always aim to be fully engaged in an activity, or resting
You single task your way through the day
You are at the top of your game, as you focus on expanding capacity of your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual energy
You choose to be at the single place on Earth where you are the happiest, and most productive, and you are not afraid to find out where that is

9. Show Gratitude
You regularly stop and are grateful for your circumstances
You are grateful for the work co-workers do to push the company forward and help you move faster
You approach customer conversations with humility and the knowledge that it's a privilege to serve these people
You have gratitude for platforms, tools and open source that laid the foundation for the possibility of the company: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton

10. Do the right thing
You choose what's best for customers and the company in the long-term
You correct the mistake even when no one would notice
You strive to provide the best solution, even if that means foregoing profit
You get excited about opportunities to help others

Zu Besuch bei Buffer:
Dem Erfolgsgeheimnis eines der ungewöhnlichsten Startups auf der Spur (c) 05/2014 t3n.de
http://t3n.de/news/besuch-buffer-erfolgsgeheimnis-541554

Das junge Social-Media-Unternehmen Buffer sorgt für Aufmerksamkeit im Silicon Valley. Der österreichische Gründer Leo Widrich und seine Kollegen machen vieles anders als der Rest der Startup-Szene. Zehn spannende Regeln bestimmen die Unternehmenskultur. Wir haben uns im Büro in San Francisco umgesehen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibKQ0Ke5AQA
Startup-Kultur – Viele Firmen haben gar keine andere Wahl

Traditionelle und starre Firmenpolitik ist in der heutigen Zeit und vor allem in der Internetbranche ein Auslaufmodell. Und überall, gerade in den Medien, werden junge Startups (gerne aus dem Silicon Valley) als Galionsfigur genommen, wenn es darum geht zu zeigen, dass es auch Alternativen zu 40-Stunden-Woche und Großraumbüro gibt.

Viele der besagten Startups haben aber gar keine andere Wahl, als unkonventionelle Geschäftspraktiken zu wählen – in den meisten Fällen mangelt es schlicht und einfach an Geld und Personal, um feste Arbeitszeiten-Regelungen, Arbeitsort oder Dienstreisen in der Gründerphase streng zu reglementieren. Oftmals verschwinden diese vermeintlichen Startup-Eigenschaften aber ganz schnell, wenn ein Unternehmen wächst und erfolgreich ist.

Andere Firmen behalten diesen jungen, unkonventionellen Einschlag aber ganz bewusst bei und sorgen dafür, dass dieser essenzielle Teil ihrer Unternehmenskultur erhalten bleibt. Zu den Vorzeigebeispielen in dieser Kategorie gehört auch
Buffer, ein Dienst, der privaten und kommerziellen Nutzern dabei hilft, Inhalte in den
größten Sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn und Google+ zu teilen.

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