by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
The message to a person should be the same as the message about a person.<\/strong><\/p>\n What I say to a person is the same as what I say about a person. At least it should be. In other words, I say the same thing when the person is in the room as when the person is not. Furthermore, I do it in a way that everyone knows it.<\/p>\n It is too easy to say, “If the person were here I would say the same thing to their face.”<\/p>\n Fine. If that is true, that person should be here, now, while I am talking. If that person is not here, I don’t talk about them. “But I have hired you to evaluate that person.” Fine, let’s find a way to do this right. Until we find a way to do it right, we won’t do it wrong.<\/p>\n Sometimes it is difficult to be an adult and a manager at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips The message to a person should be the same as the message about a person. What I say to a person is the same as what I say about a person. At least it should be. In other words, I say the same thing when the person is in the room as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,10],"tags":[154,132,133],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-management","category-people","tag-communication","tag-management","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}