All core values
Trust
Empowerment
Giving people authority, resources, and support to act with confidence in their judgment.
Behaviors
- Delegates real decisions, not just tasks
- Makes resources available without a fight
- Coaches instead of rescuing
Anti-patterns
- Fake autonomy with hidden veto power
- Withholding information people need to decide
- Blaming people for decisions you forced
Reinforce it with
- Decision rights matrices
- Budget ownership at the team level
- Leadership asking 'what do you think?' before answering
Empowerment is trust with the tools to back it up.