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This could work fine if the pair is acknowledged as such. In most orgs one side of the pair will be just be seen as a replaceable counter-weight while the other side gets the praise and promotions.

We see this a lot with daring "idea people" types seemingly plowing forward while the actual work is done by everyone around them, curating the firehose of random ideas and making the good ones into reality.

On an org level it doesn't matter as long as employees stay, but that usually doesn't last long.




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