I feel like many of the commenters here are missing the point of the post. > My takeaway from pondering this today is pretty straightforward: > Talk to your p

I feel like many of the commenters here are missing the point of the post. > My takeaway from pondering this today is pretty straightforward: > Talk to your people. Don’t wait. Do it now, and never stop. If they are meeting expectations, thank them regularly. If they aren’t meeting your needs or the needs of others in the company, tell them now. Don’t wait until you find yourself identifying “patterns”. and then a little later: > If you can identify an incompatibility like this early enough, it doesn’t even have to be rancorous. Incompatibility happens. Nobody needs to feel like a failure over it. When the author is relating his own experience, he's not saying there was no problem to be addressed. What he's saying is he thinks that situation (and many others like it in our industry) can be handled better, and he wraps up the post by taking about what some of those ways might be.