All core values
Growth
Truth-seeking
Caring more about finding what is true than about being right.
Behaviors
- Asks 'what would change my mind?'
- Rewards people who surface uncomfortable facts
- Updates beliefs publicly when evidence demands it
Anti-patterns
- Debating to win instead of to learn
- Punishing the messenger
- Certainty performed for status
Reinforce it with
- Pre-mortems and red teams
- Leaders admitting changed minds
- Decision reviews that examine reasoning, not just results
Truth-seeking keeps an organization in contact with reality — its only real competitive advantage.