DFTikum
The 12 basic laws of work
The model contains the 12 most important principles of work and of the view of value; every member of an organisation or group has to agree to observe them in full in order to move towards the common goal.
The concept in brief
There is no order of importance among the 12 principles; they are equally decisive in the life of organisations.
The list follows a logical order: it shows where it is worth starting when building a shared identity.
The 12 principles can be applied regardless of the type of organisation or group, wherever people work together to achieve a common goal.
Everyone has to start putting the principles into practice in themselves.
The absence or the opposite of the principles leads to corruption appearing in the organisation.
In detail
1. The law of visionary operation: vision and responsibility
We have a clear organisational vision and an individual vision that fits it, and so we take responsibility when we work.
2. The law of mission: commitment and the client for life
We are personally committed to the forward-looking usefulness of our work, to the operation of the organisation and to our work processes: our work is our cause (ügy), and only in this way can we truly have clients (ügyfél, literally “party to the cause”). We look after our clients: the aim of every word, thought and action of ours is for our clients to remain our clients for ever.
3. The law of striving for completeness: maximalism
We decide of our own free will where we work and what work we do, so it is never worth working below the best of our ability.
4. The law of positivity: action and solution
We believe in people who face reality, have a forward-looking, optimistic vision, are always ready to act, and look only for solutions.
5. The law of transparency: visibility and comprehensibility
We have to make our work visible in such a way that it also becomes self-explanatory (trans parentem), because the all-illuminating light of transparency needs no tour guide. In this way our system becomes clearer, develops and becomes easy to see through.
6. The law of performance culture: result and value
We want to achieve results, not merely to be busy, and we want to take responsibility for our value-creating performance, which we make measurable.
7. The law of quality: prevention and proactivity
The only objective measure of our performance is the satisfaction of our external and internal clients. We want to take responsibility not only for the result but also for the quality of the process leading to it (process responsibility). We always strive to take on the role of the better supplier. We think ahead of our clients and take the initiative.
8. The law of standardisation: making improvement permanent
We do not want to work well, but better, so we want not merely to reach but to exceed the performance levels set in our agreements with our external and internal clients (positive deviation). We make our work processes balanced (robust) while making development permanent. Everyone, in every work process, every day, every hour.
9. The law of the cosmos: order and simplicity
We believe in the human inclination towards order and in the tools capable of creating it; this is how a system is born (in Hungarian, rendszer = rend, “order” + szer, “tool”). The direction of order is always simplification.
10. The law of cooperation: community synergy
We always and in all circumstances cooperate with one another fully and constructively, regardless of gender, age, rank or position. We consider creating harmony between the community’s energies to be above any of our individual truths.
11. The law of consensus: agreement and identification
We believe in agreement, not in a system of acceptance (compromise). Only with this aim can we truly identify with our own affairs and those of others.
12. The law of unity: community responsibility
We do not have many operating systems and strategies, but one; not many visions and missions, but one; not many value systems, but one. One that we undertake together. Work assigns us a role in the community, and its highest value is the one.
It is not worth taking responsibility only for ourselves, but for everyone we work with.