Consequences

Every decision has consequences.  Hiring decisions, promotion decisions, decisions to award credentials: all have consequences. It’s easy to disassociate the decision with what happens after the decision’s made.  Someone (else) will work with that new hire, and that new hire might be … different.  Because, diversity.  So, others face the consequences while the original decision maker does not.  Same with awarding credentials, especially if judgement was required to award the credential, based on interviews or purported evidence.  Not that this is inevitably problematic, it’s just that there are consequences.  Celebrate the good ones and be prepared for the awkward ones.