15 May 2022
Easier Aphorisms #40
To understand impact it is necessary to look beyond, not just through measures.
To understand impact it is necessary to look beyond, not just through measures.
Treating measures as scores to be kept only turns performance into a game to be played.
What ‘good’ looks like is in part a function of where we are looking from so without empathy and mutuality what hope of progress or shared intent?
‘Ruinous empathy’ is a dangerous myth. Unilateral empathy is the real problem, where empathy only flows in 1 direction. This is a problem of too little empathy, not too much.
For managers to become coaches we need to shift from a culture of feedback to a culture of empathy.