> But whats more interesting to think about is "what are they prepared to compromise to achieve those values?"

Avery Pennarun puts this similarly: "... useful organizational values come in the form of tradeoffs: giving up one nice thing in order to get some other nice thing."

As noted at the end of https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926 (and discussed here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088425)