Q: what are your values? If you work: how do these values play out in your professional life?

Hello community! I've been reflecting lately on my career history and how my values have showed up in it. Sometimes my values have helped me do well in my professional duties, such as helping me to be a good manager and leader. And sometimes my values have been a challenge for workplace expectations, such as obeying orders I disagree with that have been issued by people I don't respect/consider competent (but who are my seniors).

I'm interested to learn whether some of my values that show up in my working life might be correlated with giftedness. For example, I've sometimes seen mention that people with giftedness often have a strong need for self-direction / sense of purpose in what they do (entelechy, Dabrowski's "positive disintegration"), or a strong commitment to truth. I can see this in my working life, that I want to fulfil my potential and also help my team fulfil their potential (= good manager/leader). But then I struggle to co-operate with orders that run contrary to me or my team being able to fulfil our potential. And I also call out my seniors when they do something dysfunctional. I am unsure if this latter is motivated by my commitment to truth, or whether it's because I naively think that critical feedback can help my seniors fulfil their potential too, or a bit of both. However it isn't popular 🙂 So I'm hoping that if I understand why I do it / where it's coming from within me, then I might be able to "manage" myself better around it.

Q to the community: what would you say are your core values?

And if you work: how do these values play out in your professional life?

TIA!