Part of your job as the boss is to help people think through their ideas before submitting them to the rough-and-tumble of debate**. Russ Laraway explained that I was doing this all wrong when I told my team at Google not to bring me problems; instead, I told them, bring me three solutions and a recommendation. **“But then you’re not helping people innovate,” Russ explained. “You’re asking them to make decisions before they’ve had time to think things through**. When do they get to just talk, brainstorm with you?” I realized Russ was right; I was abdicating an important part of my job by insisting on the “three solutions and a recommendation” approach. --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[management]], [[innovation]], [[culture]], [[asking-questions]], [[brainstorming]], [[roles]] **Source** — [[202303281533 - B - Radical Candor]]