All core values
Performance

Rigor

Applying disciplined thinking and evidence to important choices, without letting perfection become the enemy.

Behaviors

  • Tests assumptions before scaling
  • Uses data to challenge intuition
  • Documents the reasoning behind big bets

Anti-patterns

  • Data theater without decisions
  • Rigor used to delay action
  • Analysis that ignores human context

Reinforce it with

  • Pre-mortems and red teams
  • Decision journals
  • Structured experiments
Rigor is the discipline that makes confidence earned.