>From: Roy Winkler <rwinkler@iquest.net>
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> If I am handicapped by fear of permanent retribution for
>my errors, I am likely to actively avoid making mistakes,
> By doing only the right things, one does not discover the dimensions
>of the envelope. Only by doing the wrong things occasionally, will one
>define the boundaries of knowledge about the subject.
I assume that avoiding mistakes can be avoiding the risk of different
courses of action. That is avoiding testing the boundaries. First, let
me say that I think, and practice, that allowing people to test the limits
of their capabilities is the very best learning we can give them.
Non-fatal errors are geat learning experiences. But I also try to gain
from every situation. When examining a result we try to ask both what
went wrong and what went right. Then let's try the right action again to
see of it is repeatable.
The hardest thing about this is to bring the senior people, those
comfortable in their 'control' positions around to analysis of all their
decisions, good and not so good.
--
William J. Hobler, Jr. bhobler@cpcug.org
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