All core values
Growth
Grit
Staying with hard, unglamorous work long enough for it to pay off.
Behaviors
- Returns to a hard problem after a setback
- Finishes the last ten percent
- Keeps standards up when nobody is watching
Anti-patterns
- Grit used to justify burnout
- Abandoning work when novelty fades
- Grinding on something already disproven
Reinforce it with
- Recognition for long-haul progress
- Milestones on multi-quarter work
- Honest stop-or-continue reviews
Grit is what turns ambition into finished work.