All core values
People
Generosity
Sharing credit, context, and time freely because the team's win is the real scoreboard.
Behaviors
- Names contributors specifically
- Shares knowledge instead of hoarding it
- Gives time to people with nothing to trade
Anti-patterns
- Credit routed upward only
- Information as leverage
- Helping only when it's visible
Reinforce it with
- Peer recognition programs
- Shared documentation norms
- Promotion criteria that include lifting others
Generosity is how knowledge and goodwill circulate instead of pooling.