The Correction No One Sees
Early in my career at Lycos, I had a brilliant engineer on my team whose unchecked confidence was silencing the people around him. I saw it. I told myself I was monitoring the situation. What I was actually doing was hoping it would resolve itself.Hope is not a strategy. And a preventable failure went into production because the team's ability to self-correct had quietly shut down.In this essay, David explores the quiet leader's most dangerous shadow: delay. Not aggression, not passivity, but the specific pattern of disguising avoidance as patience and letting the team pay the cost.Drawing on…
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