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Yes, people seem to greatly underestimate how much their own outlook affects others. This is actually an important quality I try to look for when hiring. I've
by aeternus 7y ago
Yes, people seem to greatly underestimate how much their own outlook affects others.
This is actually an important quality I try to look for when hiring. I've seen some very technically competent leads cause team productivity and morale to plummet due to their negativity and pessimistic outlook.
- lotyrin 7y agoI've seen that as well. I've also seen optimism doom teams in the forms of failing to anticipate obstacles, making unreasonable promises in binding documents, and underestimating project effort. Seems like being objective and calibrating your expectations appropriately based on the risks you can or can't accept, or the trade-offs you do or don't get to make and avoiding bias or emotional attachments is pretty awfully difficult for humans (even very bright, talented ones) to do.