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by toomuchtodo 1348 days ago
They will question your decisions and directions instead of blindly following them. You can have curious employees, or obedient employees, but usually not both. You can somewhat pave over this with comp (tech does this), but most of the economy cannot.
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I’ve always thought of that as something like “first order smart”. Smart enough to start forming opinions fast but not able to decouple from the need to analyze enough to “just work.” Or patience. Or something.