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Re:Toxic Positivity by wreath on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:39PM (#31495153)
Holy cow, a team running for 25 years? Thats almost an entire career.

I appreciate you being straightforward with priorities/goals (company’s THEN the individuals’). I think an awful lot of managers fail because they try to act like friends with their team and then get hit by the reality of whats expected of them and it gets real awkward at best.

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Re:Toxic Positivity by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:02PM (#31495416)
Yeah. The company didn't pay especially well, so it was important to keep people, and new hiring was always painful.

Rigorous Honesty is critical in my management. I need to be honest with myself, my superiors, my coworkers, and my employees.

It's quite possible to keep things confidential without lying. I've done it for many years.

Another drawback of my style, is the employees become loyal to me, not the company. If I had left, they probably would have lost the whole team, fairly quickly. The company didn't seem to mind that.

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