A Journey Towards VALUE

Valued Empyrean is an organization focused on allowing people to Venture into a better way of life through Activity, Leisure, Unity, and Education. That acronym of VALUE drives everything we do. Whether our projects extend into the for-profit sector with Value Organizational Services Group (VOSG) and Value Resources (VR), or the non-profit sector with Value Added Ventures (VAV). We strive to positively change the people and organizations that will go on to change the world.

Over a career spanning 30 years, Valued Empyrean Senior Partner, Darwin Harrison, had the opportunity to work across industries like mining, financial services, real estate, and healthcare. While working with a healthcare company in Albuquerque, he recognized an opportunity in a business segment operating at a significant annual loss in the millions of dollars. As part of the management team, he helped to negotiate with management to acquire the business line for a very small number. Over the course of a few short years, that business line transformed into a company generating value, and was acquired for north of $100M.

That transformative process has been catalogued as The Value Way of Thinking (VWOT), a process that focuses on how people think, and how best to approach a problem holistically. The purpose of this publication will be to progressively distill the principles utilized throughout the VWOT. No matter what situation you’re dealing with, the VWOT emphasizes a focus on perspective, understanding, collaboration, and various models for approaching a problem.

The Value Way of Thinking is not just a business book; it is a collection of tools that people can apply to solve organizational problems, strengthen team dynamics, improve personal accountability, or relationships.

Traditionally, when we attempt a task, we do it from our own perspective, the way it’s been done before. The Value Way of Thinking is looking at the situation from the perspective of the people we’re trying to serve, ask questions until we fully understand, and do it in a way that best fulfills both our needs, and theirs.

The whirlwind of daily work often demands that we ignore higher level strategic efforts that make positive organizational change possible. While our day-to-day activities pay the bills, they should not dictate the direction of an organization, project, or way of thinking. The Value Way of Thinking helps us come up for air from the whirlwind, so we can see where we want to go, stop spinning in circles, and start making quantum leaps toward our true goals.