Should We Promote our Problems?What about Potential?
“An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters
When considering giving someone a position or promotion answer these four questions before making the call:
- What has the performance been so far?
- Is it good enough?
- Is there anything in place that would make it different?
- If not, am I willing to sign up for more of the same?
The ONE THING for today: Promotion and advance must be the result of someone having produced where they already are. Any other reason runs the risk of compounding the reason(s) why they were already not producing.
Note: I got these questions from Henry Cloud’s book: Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
