The importance of adopting a stewardship mindset in managing GraphQL schemas, understanding the unique experiences and perspectives of each team involved, assuming good intent when sharing new ideas, leaning into the friction that arises from competing visions for the graph, and adopting a client-centric mindset are key best practices for effective schema stewardship. These principles aim to create a collaborative process that balances the needs of all parties involved, avoids creating a process bottleneck, and ultimately leads to better outcomes for customers and the organization as a whole. By embracing these best practices, teams can work together to define, evolve, and improve their GraphQL schemas, leading to a unified representation of data, services, and digital capabilities that meets the needs of all stakeholders.