Egoless, Ownership & Growth Mindset

Polar Analytics: the Chicago bulls

• We're like a pro sports team, not a kid's recreational team.
  • The collective is more important than the individual
• Hire, develop and ensure we have only stars in every position.
  • But contrary to the sports team, there are no fixed spots and room for everyone to grow.

We look for the "Rare Responsible Person", who thrives on freedom and deserves freedom

• Owner mentality
  • Self-motivated
  • Self-disciplined
  • Self-improving
  • Thinks big and fast
  • Picks up trash on the floor

Outcomes rather than inputs:

• Don't measure people by the hours put in
• Care about impact

What is a value?

• Not a bull-s* poster, it's a reflection of who gets hired, rewarded, promoted, or let go

Values

Polar Analytics is a Full-Stack Business Intelligence Solution for Consumer Brands. Our mission is to empower independent consumer brands to compete with retail giants, through data, so that they can become future retail giants.

• Caring 💜
  • We care about the mission and the success of our customers
  • We treat people with respect
  • We are empathetic and take care of our colleagues when they need help.
• Driven by Impact 🎯
  • We accomplish great amounts of meaningful work
  • We celebrate our wins and are tenacious
  • We focus on great results rather than on the process.
  • We have a bias to action and avoid analysis paralysis.

Communications

• #1 Offer solutions, not problems

  • We tend to go straight to the issue.
    • 🚫 “This won’t work because of X.”
    • ✅ “X will make this difficult. But if we do Y, then it has a greater chance of success.”

• #2 Make requests, not complaints

  • You feel burnout creeping on.
    • 🚫 “I can’t keep doing this. I’m exhausted.”
    • ✅ “A vacation in the next couple months would be great. How do these dates work?”

• #3 Keep everyone in the loop

  • ✅ Agree to an update cadence for each project you’re working on--daily or weekly depending on the project’s scope.
  • This way we know you’re doing a great job AND there is no need to micromanage.

• No Ego 🤝

  • Our mission is to empower our brands
  • We seek what is best for Polar Analytics rather than for ourselves
  • We are ego-less when searching for ideas, Quick to admit mistakes

• Growth Mindset 🚀

  • We constantly desire to learn and are eager to improve our knowledge.
  • We understand strategy, market, customers, technology
  • We inspire others with your thirst for excellence and rigor

• Transparency 🪞

  • We share information openly and proactively
  • We say what we think, question inconsistent actions with our values
  • We display candor and directness

• Act like an owner 🔑

  • We make good decisions quickly despite ambiguity
  • We identify root causes
  • We understand what must be done well now, what can be improved later