All core values
People
Humility
Holding strong opinions loosely. Believing you can be wrong, and acting on it.
Behaviors
- Asks 'what am I missing?'
- Credits the team in public, takes blame in private
- Updates beliefs when evidence shifts
Anti-patterns
- Defending ego over outcomes
- Performative humility
- Quiet credit-taking
Reinforce it with
- Pre-mortems
- Red-team reviews
- Promotion criteria that reward learning, not certainty
Humility is the doorway through which feedback walks.