If you try to protect your collaborators too much, you might infantilize them.
- If you try to protect your collaborators too much, you might infantilize them.
- You insulate them from real constraints and realities, and make them more brittle to things that might need to change.
- You also might think they have a stricter constraint than they actually do, because you don't know what they think about the real situation, but instead know what they think about a simplified one.
- So you conclude they are more brittle than they are.
- If you think someone is brittle, you will make them brittle.
- You'll isolate them from things that could help them become stronger, and make it more catastrophic when they do interact with something outside what they were expecting.