All core values
Growth
Tenacity
Staying with hard problems long enough for breakthroughs to arrive, without confusing stubbornness with persistence.
Behaviors
- Returns to hard problems with fresh angles
- Protects energy for long challenges
- Switches tactics without abandoning the goal
Anti-patterns
- Pounding the same approach that isn't working
- Burning out to prove commitment
- Giving up at the first real obstacle
Reinforce it with
- Protected project time
- Milestone-based persistence reviews
- Stories of late-arriving breakthroughs
Tenacity is the patience to keep moving when the solution hasn't shown up yet.