You have an opportunity to determine how you want to work together to maximize the value of what you can do and how well you do it. If you work together as proposed in this note, you will achieve great effectiveness for yourself and for your company and you will grow together professionally as you share the journey:

• Involve each other in your problem-solving. That way you will get to know each other better and gain from your joint contributions.
• Let others help you to transform the ideas you formulate into daily operational reality. That way you will develop a true leadership team and accomplish vastly more together than any one could alone.
• Come to each other with open and honest feedback. Provide each other with unconditional patience, affection, and the permission to make mistakes. You need to be the best sources for each other on how you are doing.
• Cultivate a constructive interest in each other that promotes open dialogue and continuing self-development.
• Maintain a "can do" spirit and approach to your business. When something isn't quite right, be clear about what it is and how you would like it to be through full disclosure and proactive steps.
• Act because you think it is the right thing and because it makes sense for the company - not because I, your boss, or anyone else tells you. Start with the premise that rational decision-makers are likely to respond to the full set of facts in reasonable ways. Then make sure everyone has the same information. If you're stuck, talk it through with colleagues and the next level of management.
• Try new things. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" is a truism for good reasons.
• Be willing to work on - not just in our business. This means periodically stepping back to pause, reflect, talk about, and make adjustments to what is going on.
• Make the quest for truth and understanding the hallmark of everything you do. Work the point, not the person. Strive to find and respect the facts, learn from experience, and gain wisdom from the good and the bad.
• Pursue what you've signed on to accomplish relentlessly and rationally.