see it early.
Awareness is the ability to clearly and honestly recognize the factors that shape your effectiveness — starting with yourself and expanding outward to your team, your function, and the broader landscape of the business, our customers, patients, and stakeholders. It is the first step in Own It! Accountability: See It. If you can't see it, you can't own it, solve it, or do anything about it. Awareness is only as strong as your willingness to listen — to feedback, to colleagues, and to what isn't being said.
It starts with self. Self-aware people understand their strengths, their development areas, and the impact their behavior has on the people around them. They seek feedback, sit with it honestly, and use it. They reflect on how they show up in meetings, in decisions, under pressure — and they adjust when their behavior isn't landing the way they intended. They ask for help when they need it. They don't confuse confidence with competence.
Awareness doesn't stop at self, and it doesn't stop at the boundaries of your function. Curiosity about how the organization works beyond your immediate scope is what breaks down silos — not a mandate, but a daily choice to look beyond your own lane before acting. Aware professionals ask how their decisions, timelines, and priorities affect colleagues in other departments. They listen in cross-functional meetings, in one-on-ones, and in everyday exchanges to understand the pressures, constraints, and goals other teams are working against. They read the room. They read people alongside the data — noticing when a colleague is stretched, when a room shifts, when what's said doesn't match what's meant. They understand that what worked in one situation, function, or phase of the business may not apply in another.
The most aware people don't wait for a problem to become fully visible to name it. They pick up on early signals, surface concerns while still manageable, and raise what they see before it becomes a crisis. They also recognize that seeing a problem clearly doesn't always mean they're the one to solve it. Strong awareness includes knowing your role and using that clarity to influence constructively — bringing what you see to the right people, in the right way, at the right time.
MannKind hires professionals. We know it because we chose them. That standing is precisely why aware people stay curious rather than certain. Real expertise creates humility, not the opposite. The more you know your domain, the more clearly you see how much you don't yet see. Awareness is the discipline of being a humble pro: confidence in your craft, humility about what's still emerging.
Awareness lives Do Right, Own It, and Win Together — being honest with yourself and others about where you stand, taking personal responsibility for your growth and your impact, and extending your curiosity beyond your own function.