11. Lease Your Soul
The practitioner is willing to abandon a long-mastered skill or technology.
An admirable characteristic of the competent professional is a willingness to shape solutions to the problem to be solved, rather than force the problem to match the tried and tested competencies of the individual or team. That does not mean that team members lack skill in applying the tools and approaches they know. But instead of selling their souls to any technology, they lease them. In other words, when good new ideas come along, they are ready to consider their merits, compare them with past technologies, and make intelligent decisions about using the most appropriate approach.
In Goethe’s story, Faust makes a pact to sell his soul to the devil. ...
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