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Over the last 20 years that we have been in business, we at Olam have competed and won on the strength of our intangible assets. Our people are our greatest intangible assets. We have attracted leaders who have grown and developed an extraordinary combination of attributes including vision, passion, inventiveness, entrepreneurism, commitment and focused drive to make us a global leader in the supply chain management of agricultural commodities.
It is our people who have contributed to building our culture into what it is today. This culture acts as glue and serves as a unifying force for our many business units around the world. Again, it is going to be our people who are going to be the architects of our future.
At Olam, we are builders – we build businesses, we build capabilities and we build leaders. We hire exceptional people and provide them great opportunities to build their capabilities and their careers across multiple businesses, geographies and functions.
In the ultimate analysis, our people and the organizational advantage that they create for us, is our true sustainable competitive advantage. We take this culture and make it fungible across product, geography and functional boundaries serving as a capability predator that helps us enter new products and regions and win.
We take pride in adhering to its principles and above all, live these values and implement them with both conviction and enthusiasm. These values come alive not only in training programs or in discussion with colleagues, but mainly by taking concrete action in the workplace. These values are applicable everywhere and at all times across the organization and are a tangible expression of our corporate culture, at the heart of our success going forward.
We dare to dream
- We continuously seek unique opportunities and act upon them at every level in the organization
- We promote intelligent risk taking when the potential rewards are great.
- We make it safe for our managers to fail occasionally as a learning process
- We eat our own cooking. We encourage our people to participate in the risk and rewards of the business by putting their net worth at risk through taking equity stakes in the business
Our passion for doing more
- We instill ambition and aspire for high standards of success
- We shape our ambition through inducting a unique point of view of the future of our businesses
- We embed the desire to achieve that which seems beyond our grasp
- We demonstrate discretionary effort and passion for doing more than expected
Our unyielding commitment in whatever we do
- We demonstrate ownership mindset in everything we do
- We show an intensity to win.
- We deliver on our role and responsibilities. We make and deliver on commitments
- We set high standards for execution excellence through continuous improvement
- We strive to organize to get things right the first time
We treat each other the way we want to be treated
- We show respect for each other and other’s points of view through responsible, open, two way communication
- We value the diversity among our colleagues in style, language and talent
- We actively share information and ideas in a boundary less manner regardless of business unit or self interest
- We encourage widespread participation in our decision making process
We stay true to what we believe, say and do’
- We always strive to do the right thing
- We are committed to fostering sustainable and responsible business practices
- We promote ideas, projects and people based on merit in an objective and unbiased way
Our relationships brings us the rewards
- We understand and respect our customers and supplier needs
- We strive to develop positive and long term relationships with our customers and suppliers
- We strive for high customer and supplier satisfaction
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