📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 16: Pay conversations fail on preparation, not principle.
A model cannot tell you what to pay anyone — it has no access to your bands, your budget or your market data. What it can do is help you structure a conversation you have to get right.
Why this matters: Compensation conversations go badly when HR improvises. Having the rationale, the boundaries and the answer to "why not?" worked out in advance is the difference between a professional conversation and a damaging one.