[neotrope]

This is great advice, but getting to a place where this works doesn’t always happen.

There’s a natural incentive to not need help. The more help you need to get things done the less valuable you are.

Conversely, great leaders are giving tasks that challenge people and can often include complexity beyond someone’s ability.

As a general rule, leaders expect people to:

  - make a good effort (~90%) to solve problems (don’t kill yourself or your team)
  - understand the solution space when problems don’t yield 
  - escalate with options for moving forward (the more fleshed out the better)
  - clear communication around important changes

[scarface_74]

I worked at a startup at my last company where the CTO would give me “special assignments” to come up with proof of concepts that wouldn’t require him to go through the “process” - product managers, sales, project managers, etc.

I wasn’t expected to know everything. I was expected to pull in the right people.

Now that I work at BigTech, why would I struggle trying to figure out how something works on one of the hundreds of cloud products for more than a $Timeboxxed period of time when I literally can reach out to the team who wrote the service?