@stephc_int13 I'm genuinely interested in what you mean by unwanted feedback. Like I said, it can be the most important. re the quip about competent managers,

@stephc_int13 I'm genuinely interested in what you mean by unwanted feedback. Like I said, it can be the most important. re the quip about competent managers, I regret putting that in, and it wasn't meant badly; see my comment of a few hours earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917668 which said something quite close to what you said about know what your employees are doing.