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Ethics & accountability · Accountability without blame

A deal has slipped, the team has been running on no sleep, and you realize corners are being cut on confirmatory diligence to hit the signing date. As the person leading the deal, how do you hold the standard without simply blaming an exhausted team?

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Corners on confirmatory diligence are corners on the thing the client is paying us to get right, so the standard holds — but I hold it by fixing the conditions I created, not by blaming people I've run into the ground.…

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