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ATLC #15 – Could you do it?

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In the last lesson you were asked to demonstrate your skill in PTO. Now check if you were able to PTO as instructed.

The orange you were asked to peel was:

Resolve the PTO paradox in 111 words.

The most important instruction for you to follow in this PTO was the specification of 111 words. You were not to know that, of course. In PTO one never really knows because one doesn’t get the opportunity to discuss things, as one does in normal situations.

One of the benefits of PTO, provided you have a skilled leadership team, is that anyone in the team can give anyone else in the team a PTO and it is done without question or discussion. This has advantages of speed, efficiency and effectiveness when the team is striving for a mutual objective. But it is not easy and does take PRR to produce a high level of PTO skill.

Obviously, so early in a leadership training sequence, one is not expected to get the ‘right’ answer as much as one is expected to just try and practise the skills.

DFQ #15:
What is the biggest insight about PTO that you have had so far as you’ve been doing these past few lessons?

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