𝗛𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 "𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺." 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁.

𝗛𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 "𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺." 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁. (Save post for later!) 💡

Remember Thorsten? He is one of my coaching clients. For years, he hired people just like him - same background, same way of thinking.

We called it his "mirror team."

Then he realized he was missing opportunities because everyone thought the same way.

So he started hiring people who thought differently.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁.

A few months later, the junior engineer who questioned his ideas left the company.

"I thought I was finally building the team I needed," Thorsten told me. "But maybe I broke something that was working."

Let me tell you something about breaking the mirror. You don't automatically get helpful disagreement.

Sometimes you get chaos. Sometimes you lose people.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱:

Creating space for people to disagree is only half the work.

The other half? Learning how to handle different opinions yourself.

For months, Thorsten still reacted the old way. When someone challenged him, he'd say "Yes, but here's why that won't work."

The real change came when he started saying "You're right, I hadn't thought of that."

The junior engineer leaving wasn't a failure. It was part of building a new system.

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘂𝗽?

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