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If that's what great leadership is about then..that's why I often don't respect managers.

The situation is that they have worked for years on a paper and now the first draft has serious obvious editing flaws. So the "leader" instead of giving constructive feedback just says it's garbage and dismisses it? It's not only rude but makes no sense for an intelligent person to behave that way in a team.

Then the other person recognizing they need to get on the same page and acknowledging the poor writing is just a sort of integral way of preserving all of that work on the research.

If you need to go to Harvard to learn to not be a stupid asshole..




> So the "leader" instead of giving constructive feedback just says it's garbage and dismisses it?

The person being dismissive is not the leader in this example. The person who does a judo move accepting the criticism and using it to improve the article, the working relationship, and the conversation is the leader.




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