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This is How Effective Leaders Move Beyond Blame

Dave Zwieback's framework for transforming organizational failures from blame-driven investigations into learning opportunities

In this insightful piece, Dave Zwieback reveals how effective leaders can transform organizational failures from blame-driven witch hunts into powerful learning opportunities. By introducing a revolutionary "learning review" framework, the article provides engineering leaders with a practical approach to building more resilient teams that prioritize understanding systemic conditions over punishing individuals. Zwieback's methodology offers a counterintuitive yet powerful strategy: "The only way to extract a full account of what happened is to remove blame and punishment from our retrospectives."

Source: firstround.com
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