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Reports: the bad, the good, and the great

Following up on my previous post On Fear , I was reflecting on the possibility that: bad reports will ignore your fears and only focus on the goals. As a result your satisfaction will be low good reports will only pick up on the fears that are explicitly stated as a goal. As a result your satisfaction will be OK-ish, but at great expense great reports will understand your fears before you even state them or without needing to go into the details. As a result your satisfaction will be at its greatest potential, allowing full delegation and growth for both

Bad leaders are great decision makers and solution providers

I was watching this video , and at around 37' he says something along the lines of: we need to stop rewarding leaders for making good decisions, and instead reward them for enabling their teams to make the decisions/find the solutions which reminded me to of this passage in  L. David Marquet's Turn the ship around! : When the performance of a unit goes down after an officer leaves, it is taken as a sign that he was a good leader, not that he was ineffective in training his people properly.