Raising-the-moderate results in iterative linear improvement over the exponential progress we like to go after with the technique of raising the bar.
It improves the average work to excel to become incrementally better. It builds the culture to look for pitfalls of the present and work on improving them without the shame, comparison, and looking down upon those that can only produce the unreasonable at the start.
Raising the moderate considers why someone struggles to produce enough and gives them the tools to create adequately.
It then puts the next challenge out to beat that until we have something of substance.
However, once we have learned that we can excel by raising the moderate, it has an unintended side effect! It reduces the demand for best-in-breed excellence as we know it. We learn to settle for adequate!
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