The email you drafted at 11pm and shouldn't have sent
It was clear, direct, and absolutely correct. It also cost you the relationship. Being right at midnight is the most expensive form of being right.
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Communication
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The board update that buried the bad news
Page nine, paragraph three, fourth sentence in. The number that mattered most was hidden where nobody would ask about it.
The cofounder conversation you keep postponing
You've been rehearsing it in the shower for nine months. The longer you wait, the more expensive the silence gets.
The all-hands that became a status report
Sixty people sat through forty-five minutes of updates they could have read in a doc. Nobody asked a question. Nobody was supposed to.
The status meeting that should have been three numbers
Most weekly status meetings exist because nobody wants to commit the three numbers to writing. The meeting is hiding something.
The $40,000 Standing Meeting
When the same topic appears on the agenda for the fourth week in a row, the meeting is functioning. The business is not. Why does the same topic show up on the…