The Mirror: Are They Thinking, or Just Waiting?
- 4 days ago
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So here’s the mirror for the Oracle. You built a room full of sharp people and slowly trained them to stop using the thing that made them sharp — one helpful answer at a time. The move isn’t to withhold what you know or watch people flounder. It’s to catch the next three problems you could solve in ten seconds, and instead of solving them, ask one question: what would you do? Then stay quiet long enough to get an answer.
It will feel unhelpful. It isn’t. You’re returning the rep. The question: is your team bringing you their thinking — or just their problems? And if it’s only problems, are you the one they can’t work without, or the reason they never had to learn? Tomorrow, a new one moves in.
The Hoarder — the leader who keeps his best people close, blocks the door out, and calls it loyalty.
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