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Article Quote: Sharing bad news—top-down, bottom-up, and across the organization—has a number of salutary effects beyond the obvious benefits of transparency. It can elicit empathy and support, break down barriers, and expand the pool of contributors to problem solving. Energy otherwise spent saving face can be channeled into more constructive use.
It's been my exerience this is where implementing a new policy falls apart. The brass just doesn't want to hear unintended consequences and/or where the logic of what they were trying to do could have been a little better,
It's been my exerience this is where implementing a new policy falls apart. The brass just doesn't want to hear unintended consequences and/or where the logic of what they were trying to do could have been a little better,
When Leaders Say They Are Aligned—But Aren’t
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Leadership
Planning
Strategy
Team Building
Policy
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I have learned if I fight for the soldiers and they know I care about them, they will accept bad news more readily.
Sometimes I will join the soldiers in funeral details, gate guard, and spring cleanup. I wanted them to see the old man suffering with them.
Sometimes I will join the soldiers in funeral details, gate guard, and spring cleanup. I wanted them to see the old man suffering with them.
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Any new policy implementation is difficult, if the leaders don’t map everything out properly it just gets that much worse when the sparks hit the road when implementation happens.
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I agree with you. Just recently retired, I spent 54 years in the drug business (legal). Often, over the years, such cautions have been suggested and viewed as negativity rather than astute analysis.
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It always amuses me that “the chosen” in any organization are the only ones that have poetic a license to establish policy; and they take it personally when the unintended consequences come into focus. Wow! 54 years. Congratulations! You deserve a great retirement.
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SP5 Dennis Loberger
Thanks. If the government didn't require me to begin withdrawing my funds for retirement at 72, I'd still be working. There was talk early this year they were going to move that goalpost this year to 75, alas and unsurprisingly they failed to do that
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