Remember to Check Both

If you ever give or receive feedback, consider this:

If you give real feedback to your team members and your clients: If you “check them” in their thinking and their direction, but don’t “check yourself” in the process (and before you click ‘Send’) then you might find that you’re given the moniker of ‘Jerk’.

If you receive feedback from your team and your clients: if you “check yourself” in your thinking and direction, but don’t (fairly and without ego) “check them” in the process, then you might find that you’re given the moniker of ‘Pushover’.

But if, in either of these scenarios, you check both – yourself and others – to fairly and clearly assess what is really going on and where to go next (without ego or emotion clouding replacing reality with delusion) then you might find that you’re given the moniker or ‘Leader’.