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Developing People
Real responsibility with real consequences, permitted failure at survivable scale, and what actually transfers between a senior person and a junior one.
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Teaching Judgment Through Cases
Conclusions do not transfer. Situations do. The useful unit is a decision you actually faced, told with the uncertainty intact and the outcome withheld until they have committed.
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Letting Someone Fail Safely
A person who has never been wrong in your presence has not been tested. The work is engineering the conditions under which being wrong is instructive rather than disqualifying.
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The Stretch Assignment
Real responsibility with real consequences, sized so that failure is survivable. Most development assignments fail because the leader retains the decisions and hands over only the work.