My colleague Daisy is on sabbatical now, getting an MSc in social psychology from the London School of Economics. She attends this prestigious university on full scholarship.

Although Daisy is officially on sabbatical, she actually still works closely with us via the power of SKYPE (we had a record 5.5 hour conference call last month), msn, email and of course BBS and blog. Even more, while studying and learning, she continuously seeks out opportunities to apply what she is learning to CIC’s development and improvement.

After taking courses on organizational development, change management and others, Daisy crafted the tenets of what we are calling the CIC philosophy inspired by her daily learnings in CIC. It reflects both who we are and who we continually strive to become.

* Our values are represented by F4: Faithful, Friendly, Flexible and Fun.

* “Professionalism” is not in how we dress, but in our Attitude and Action.

* Our TEAM is characterized by outstanding Talent, intense Efficiency, polite Assertiveness, and an open Mindset; we all own a brave heart to achieve breakthrough ideas.

* Our JOB is characterized by Jumping Out of the Box, working hard as well as working smart and creatively.

* Our vision is can best be remembered using the letter B: There is no "Best," but rather "Better and Better"; we will make CIC "Better from the Bottom-up."

* CIC is always Learning, together with our team, our clients, and all other stake-holders, because we realize the world on the Internet is ever evolving.

* We are guided by the statements “We understand that anything is possible, but nothing is easy. One ending is another beginning, no mater if a success or failure.”

Daisy elaborate further on here ideas and inspiration in a Chinese post here.