| ▲ | scott_w 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Punishing in public Honestly, the "praise public, reprimand privately" truism that people learn is, along with the shit sandwich, one of the most harmful maxims in management. There are situations where, as the leader, the team needs to see you act. Let's take an example of someone speaking to another team member in an inappropriate way. If you reprimand privately, nobody knows you did that. Now, you have a team that thinks it's ok (or is raging that you think it's ok) to talk to each other in that way. If you call it out publicly, now everyone knows it's not. It is a double-edged sword, though. I'd not put a junior on full blast for introducing a bug, or a team member for missing an issue in a code review. That would send completely the wrong message. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mvkel 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's not one or the other, but should align with the culture. Like the old board chair of Starbucks said: if you're going to be an asshole, be a really good one. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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