All core values
People
Intergenerational responsibility
Considering how today's choices distribute opportunities, burdens, and resources to people who will come after us.
Behaviors
- Examines who inherits the long-term costs of a decision
- Invests in opportunities for future workers
- Includes future resource needs in planning
Anti-patterns
- Borrowing from the future to improve this quarter
- Leaving deferred problems for the next team
- Excluding younger voices from long-term decisions
Reinforce it with
- Future-impact questions in strategy reviews
- Early-career participation in planning
- Tracking obligations passed to future teams
Intergenerational responsibility asks whether today's success leaves tomorrow's people a fair starting point.