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Be less precious

David Heinemeier Hansson · 12 Mar 2024

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Overly gentle language in feedback can confuse the message

by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message

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  1. by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message
  2. expecting a reasonable baseline from people that anyone out in ThE ReAL wORlD could recognize as fair

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