Btw, since this is HN and its oriented towards startups let me pull this out of the teaching world and into management.+ I'm not alone. Andy Grove and his conc

Btw, since this is HN and its oriented towards startups let me pull this out of the teaching world and into management.+ I'm not alone. Andy Grove and his concept of Task Relevant Maturity (TRM) have a lot of overlap here. Primarily in understanding that someone's prior knowledge/experience will dictate their ability to accomplish the task at hand. Where I differ from Grove is how to help someone when their TRM is low. He states this is a time to tell them what/when/how. 1) In a structured org like Intel in the 80's when Grove wrote High Output Management, maybe this worked. In a startup where the work to be done is often as yet unknown by manager and worker alike, trying to tell someone what/when/how doesn't work 2) The ability to handle ambiguity is itself a skill and one people need to develop maturity in handling. This is where I see the idea of productive struggle/desirable difficulties as a useful addition to Grove's TRM framework +Good teaching is good management--both roles are about developing people and setting them up for success