Engineers don’t avoid performance conversations because they’re conflict-averse. They avoid them because they misclassify them as irreversible. They wait until the pattern is undeniable, the evidence is airtight, and the case is built - and by then the conversation has become a corrective action instead of a calibration. This episode names that as a decision error, applies the influence framework from Episode 10 to the hardest conversation most engineers keep delaying, and makes the case that the signal to act is when it still feels premature. Not when you’re sure.

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