That’s a great point, and was how I felt about it, after reading the article. She did ask for help (more accurately, she accepted help from a trusted source).

That’s a great point, and was how I felt about it, after reading the article. She did ask for help (more accurately, she accepted help from a trusted source). That was what made the difference. Someone came in with a new approach vector. She sounds like a fairly remarkable person, so failure isn’t necessarily an indication of incompetence. Rather, it can be an issue of approach. We can get fixated on a particular workflow. Humans are a social animal. We’re not built to “go it alone,” and that’s really our “secret sauce.” The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.