I don’t think we have much disagreement here. My first two recommendations totally connect with needing to help people who are too firmly entrenched in one end

I don’t think we have much disagreement here. My first two recommendations totally connect with needing to help people who are too firmly entrenched in one end of the stable-volatile spectrum. The blog post itself describes a common evolution from volatile to stable through the course of an individual career, so I’m sure the author would agree that no person is predetermined as one or the other for life. Lastly, I think ideas like volatile-stable have _explanatory_ value more than _predictive_ value. It can help defuse a tense situation to see that a team is falling into a common, age-old trap and then let the creativity of the whole team figure out how to solve it. I don’t think we disagree as much as you seem to think we do. :)