Chris Vallé
Chris is the visionary behind Value Management, beginning well before he founded NIP – the company behind Value Management – in 1989.
He has always been passionate about supporting professional people in realizing their true potential, both individually and collectively, and has poured all his insight, intuition and experience into ensuring that Value Management is Complexity-aware, People-centered and Value-led.
Chris has contributed the following content:
“What Does Change Look Like?” Clean Contracts and Prototypes
The only form of power that organizations know how to exercise is “power-over”, But it isn’t working and it can’t work. Value is the only pattern breaker possible, but what does it look like in practice? And how do we get there?…
“What Needs To Change?” How Value is the Key
Where we are and where we need to be are diametrically opposed. But the good news is that our quadrant model doesn’t just describe the problem; it also helps us to see what’s involved in overcoming it….
“Why Don’t They Change?” Because They Aren’t (Yet) Able To
The gap between today’s challenges and the ability to respond to them effectively continues to widen. Why? What’s going on? What’s needed to break out of this pattern? And how can we make the necessary changes understandable, natural, and achievable?…
Why Tesla are Penguins in Santa Hats
A Christmas card I saw got me thinking about the importance of polarity and poles, and the tension and turbulence between them. Value Management resolves the tension. And it explains why Tesla are penguins in Santa hats……
Value Management: How to Avoid Being Overwhelmed
If they don’t realize it already, they will soon: anyone engaged in relationships is becoming overwhelmed by the difficulties and Complexity of decisions and trade-offs. Experience-based intuition currently bridges the gap, but it can’t scale and is doomed to fail. Here, we see the ideal…
Value Management: How and Why It Works
Part of the beauty of Value Management is that it just works. But how does it work? And why does it work? Because it is built on the most fundamental foundations – the nature of reality, the nature of value, and the ways…
How What Matters Materializes
Part of the power of the “Things That Matter” is how intuitive it is. But whenever something seems “obvious”, “simple” or “common sense”, there’s a risk that it’s taken for granted and not appreciated. Things both “matter” in importance and in the sense of materializing,…
Just Asking About Things That Matter: Necessary but not Sufficient
When people begin grasping the significance of Things That Matter, they often rush to pop the “what matters to you?” question to colleagues and counterparts. That’s a great start and it’s necessary, but it’s not sufficient. Fail to realize this, and you’ll waste the opportunity…
