Look at the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dil

Look at the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem... All Problems are not created the same. And therefore what learning and doing happens depends on the Kind of Problem. Exploring an unknown jungle for gold is a very different problem than Exploiting an existing goldmine. One problem is more biased towards learning, while the other is biased towards doing. The managers and teams you end up producing for each type of problem is very different. The distribution of skills/knowledge/experience/creativity/curiosity etc at the end of solving an explore problem is very different from what you end up with solving an exploit problem. Issues arise when you take a team thats good at Explore and make them work on Exploit. Or vice versa. In our current chaotic ever changing environment most problems have elements of both that keep changing.