Introduction

You're reading this because someone you know wants to share the foundational concepts of Verge's culture with you.

Verge culture is about being more interested in learning than being right. When our egos make us afraid to be wrong, that fear leads us to defend our ideas at all costs, and convince others that we are right.

At Verge, we:

1. Recognize when these emotions (fear, anger, sadness) have gripped our thought processes.
2. Release these emotions, and shift back to a state of curiosity where we are receptive to all ideas and creativity, even if they seem to contradict our own. It is in a state of playful curiosity that truly elegant solutions are achieved.

These concepts are explained more thoroughly in the *The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership.*

Below you will find a set of videos that explain the commitments we make to building a strong Verge culture.

Please take a few minutes to watch the videos below.

https://youtu.be/fLqzYDZAqCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55_ukeLez8&ab_channel=TheConsciousLeadershipGroup

Core Values

These are behaviors that imbue everything we do.

1. We commit to embracing courageous ambition

• We take risks.
• We have grit in the face of adversity.
• We can even go so far as to be naively ambitious.
• We go after the hardest problems.
• We move past and through the fear of being wrong.