Endurance and the Long Decision
Judgment degrades under sustained pressure before anyone notices, and it degrades in a specific direction. The person losing it experiences no sensation of loss.
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The Isolation of the Role
What gets called loneliness is usually something more specific: there are things you know that you cannot say to anyone in the building, and the load…
Read →Who Tells You the Truth
Three or four people who will contradict you, constructed deliberately, from outside your hierarchy. Nobody arrives at a senior role already possessing this, and nobody is…
Read →The Filtered-Truth Problem
Nobody lies to you. Each person rounds slightly toward what you seemed to want, and four layers of small kindnesses produce a picture that is consistently…
Read →Attention Is the Scarce Resource
Time management assumes hours are interchangeable. They are not. A leader with sixty available hours and four hours of genuine judgment has a different problem than…
Read →Praise and Its Inflation
Recognition is a currency and it inflates the same way any other does. A leader who praises everything has not made people feel valued; they have…
Read →Firing Well
Two obligations run at once: to the person leaving and to everyone staying. Most of what goes wrong happens in the months before the conversation, not…
Read →The Productive Employee Who Violates the Standard
The exemption is never announced and is understood by everyone. What the organization learns is not that this person is valuable, but that the standard has…
Read →Correcting Without Humiliating
A correction that lands on the person rather than the act produces defence instead of change. The distinction is audible in the first sentence and decides…
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