Good Craft Values.

At a minimum, the decision-making process must maintain its integrity.

A decision-making process with integrity—one that involves proper consultation with the right people and a careful opinion with good craft values—will inform how the decision is looked at later, even if the substance of the decision turns out not to have been, from the perspective of hindsight, the right one.

Ultimately, how the [professional] reached the decision will be scrutinized. If he or she reached the decision in a proper way, that will affect how critics view the merits. 

- Professor Jack Goldsmith

Craft values.

An internal standard of good practice - excellence or virtues - in a profession.

What is your profession’s ‘craft values’?

What is your job’s ‘craft values’?

Are you a lawyer with a ‘pro-management advice is good advice’ craft value?

Are you a Human Resources practitioner with a ‘Gotcha!’ craft value attitude to employee misconduct?

Are you a boss with a ‘what’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?’ craft value?

If you conduct decision making processes with integrity, it’s difficult to maintain an authentic craft value that bends the advice or decision towards any of the above. I

Your craft value is the product of good decision making processes.