This always strikes me as great advice that runs slap bang into (her husbands) Blub Paradox. How can you tell someone is better or smarter than you?

I have worked out its about openness - in most modern corporate worlds fudging it till you get it is common and fear tends to rule - if they find out I don't know I will be fired.

But allow or force openness and suddenly there is an explosion of "we'll I don't know either let's experiment"

Take off the pressure of delivering arbitrary tasks and instead allow a coder to sculpt - cut away the bits not needed to reveal the hidden statue as it were and you have the makings of a team of A performers - even if thy looked b style before