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I find objective and subjective sometimes difficult to discern. To the manager, and specially founders and visionaries, it all may sound objective. Frequently,
by ojosilva 10y ago
I find objective and subjective sometimes difficult to discern.
To the manager, and specially founders and visionaries, it all may sound objective. Frequently, management literature advocates for an instinctive response as a perfectly justified, even inherently better, contribution.
Steve Jobs and Elon Musk's celebrated style of input comes to mind. Fast, truthful and direct, even if subjective. Sometimes one lacks the time to add insight to support an opinion. "Green instead of blue" may as well be sound feedback only the missing objectivity may be left as an exercise to the designer.
- vidarh 10y agoNobody are saying managers shouldn't ever give subjective feedback. The issue is when managers always give subjective suggestions for changes, because it implies that the work isn't good enough. If the work is never good enough, why is that person presenting stuff to you? (Or why are they even working for you?) Clearly, if the work is never good enough, they need someone more on their own level to bounce ideas of, or someone slightly more senior to mentor them until what they present to you is good enough a reasonable portion of the time. In other words: If you constantly need to suggest changes, the team is badly managed to begin with. And if the changes you suggest are not needed, then don't suggest them, or at least not all the time. Not only does it negatively affect team morale if you always do it, but the extra time spent costs you money. If you are a visionary that people are clamouring to work for, then, sure, you have more latitude in the amount of suggestions you make. But most of us are not in that position.