All core values
Trust
Stewardship
Caring for the organization, its people, and its resources as if they were entrusted to you by the people who come next.
Behaviors
- Makes decisions that protect long-term health
- Invests in people even when the ROI isn't immediate
- Leaves things better than found
Anti-patterns
- Extracting value for today's metrics
- Burning people out for a deadline
- Ignoring technical or culture debt
Reinforce it with
- Long-term impact reviews
- Sustainability metrics in goals
- Stories of people who protected the future
Stewardship is ownership measured in decades, not quarters.