All core values
Growth
Courage
Saying the thing, doing the hard thing, even when it costs you something.
Behaviors
- Surfaces problems early
- Disagrees with senior people respectfully
- Makes the unpopular call when needed
Anti-patterns
- Polite silence in meetings, complaints in DMs
- Waiting for permission to do obvious things
- Avoiding hard feedback
Reinforce it with
- Norms that reward dissent
- Leaders modeling vulnerability
- Protected channels for hard truths
Courage is what turns values from posters into practice.