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by incision
4614 days ago
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>"This is a distinguishing trait of every great manager that I've worked with." If it's genuine, or at least convincing, I would agree. I've witnessed a few attempts at this which clearly didn't meet that criteria and it was nearly the most off-putting managerial song and dance I've ever witnessed. I get the impression there's a certain group of people who read lists like these online or in a book somewhere and go about mimicking them without understanding the underlying prerequisites. Eating the failure and giving the success necessarily requires a total understanding of the actual successes and failures. Without that, the selfless routine is doing everyone a disservice by hiding the actual problems and quashing further discussion that might reveal them. |
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As a somewhat of an aside, I notice this disturbing tendency a lot in rookie salespeople. One of the bits of sales advice everyone appears to have read in some list somewhere is something about mirroring and first names.
It would creep me out (and trip the "douchebag alert!" signal) every time I spoke to a salesperson who would poorly imitate my mannerisms and keep jamming in my first name between their words.