One of the firm's tenets, "Be scrappy," harked back to the days when the cofounders, spurned by VC investors, worked out of coffee shops and used insurance money from a motorcycle accident to cover payroll.
One of the firm's tenets is to avoid exploration companies, deeming them far too risky and capital-intensive.
Placing children at the heart of the development process had always been a firm UNICEF tenet.
Pischetsrieder, who seems to have a firm grasp of the tenets of realpolitik, has acknowledged he will be able to lead the company only with the support of the employees.
The firm draws on five key tenets: (1) Hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults.
After all, the company, based in Midtown Manhattan, is a personnel consulting firm, and one of its tenets is: "Productive employees are the key to any organization's success.
Although not prominent in politics, Turkish Jews are firm defenders of the secular tenets established by Ataturk, the founder of the republic, and like many Turks they have been concerned over a rise in Islamic fundamentalism.
For example, evangelicals should reject the notion "that humans and dinosaurs lived together," while presumably holding firm to the central Christian tenet that humans have a life after death.
Despite Gov. Rick Perry's firm opposition to a central tenet of federal health reform — expanding the state's Medicaid program for those with low incomes — Texas Democrats remain optimistic that the 2013 legislative session can yield a deal that brings in billions of additional federal dollars.
Senkut says one central tenet for the firm is resiliency, meaning Felicis works to ensure that it's portfolio is "anti fragile," as described by essayist, scholar, and risk analyst Nassim Taleb, in his 2012 book about "things that gain from disorder".
And contrary to "Da Vinci Code" fantasies, those activities focus primarily on forming a spiritual life that bears witness to Opus Dei's fundamental tenet -- the firm and unwavering conviction that every person is a child of God who is called to live out that divine filiation in the ordinary circumstances of everyday life.
