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The Amazon leadership principle, "good leaders are right a lot" is, if you think about it, the philosophical opposite of agility (but not in the waterfall sense). If it is worth being "right a lot" it means the costs of being wrong are non-trivial. More right = fewer iterations.
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If you get it right the first time, you don't need to iterate. The ability to get it right the first time may not be a product of prior iteration. You might simply be smarter/more insightful/have more background/context knowledge etc.
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Wait, did you take “right a lot” to mean right a higher % of time? (I take it to mean a high number of rights that could come with a lot of wrongs mixed in.)
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Hmm. I think I *was* thinking higher-percentage of being right. Liking making the right call more often. My anecdotal experience suggests it’s the correct interpretation of the culture.
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