Sunday, August 16, 2020

On giving rope...

One of the leaders I look up to (and worked with really closely) used to say - I am playing hangman (with so and so).  I often wondered what he meant. Eventually I realized...

Once you have determined that a team member (or your business partner) is set in his/her ways, it's ok to not coach them or try to save them.  It's better to give them rope so they can "hang" themselves.  In more eloquent terms - their ways are sometimes self destructive and you don't need to catch the falling knife.

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