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Re: What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

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Originally Posted by GreyingJay View Post
OK, that's fair. But it's the same problem - those people have access to different data and experiences than the others, so their job should be to educate the others. Or, the others will soon discover for themselves (perhaps during prototyping) what the minority knew about that they didn't. It's still not about a popularity contest.

Sounds a lot like the Asch experiments.
Sometimes, the challenge is to get people to be willing to listen or to understand that they need to learn something. Until that is achieved, efforts to educate are fruitless. As a mentor, you may have had students telling you that you are wrong about something you have done for twice as long as they have been alive

Thanks for the link to the Asch experiments. Fascinating.
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