Transforming Daily Life™Guiding Principles
MBM requires a culture centered around specific attributes. These attributes set the standards for evaluating policies, practices and conduct, establishing norms of behavior and building the shared values that guide individual actions. The MBM Guiding Principles articulate Koch companies’ rules of just conduct along with shared values and beliefs. These Guiding Principles are: A Culture of Virtue
Conduct all affairs lawfully and with integrity.
Compliance
Strive for 10,000 percent compliance, with 100 percent of employees fully complying 100 percent of the time. Ensure excellence in environmental, safety, and all other areas of compliance. Stop, think and ask.
Value Creation
Create real, long-term value by the economic means. Understand, develop, and apply MBM to achieve superior results. Eliminate waste.
Principled Entrepreneurship™
Demonstrate the sense of urgency, discipline, accountability, judgment, initiative, economic and critical thinking skills, and the risk-taking mentality necessary to generate the greatest contribution to the company and
society.
Customer Focus
Understand and develop relationships with customers to profitably anticipate and satisfy their needs.
Knowledge
Seek and use the best knowledge and proactively share your knowledge while embracing a challenge process. Measure profitability wherever practical.
Change
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
Humility
Practice humility and intellectual honesty. Constantly seek to understand and constructively deal with reality to create real value and achieve personal improvement.
Respect
Treat others with dignity, respect, honesty, and sensitivity. Appreciate the value of diversity. Encourage and practice teamwork.
Fulfillment
Produce results that create value to realize your full potential and find fulfillment in your work.
