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Sounds an extremely rude sentence. But sometimes it just really at the end of my tongue, ready to jump out. Imagine that you are dancing among numerous top priority items. You gave an instruction to one of your staff to work on one of them. You give them clear instructions. You are forced to wait a few days to allow him to complete it. When he finally comes back, he comes with something completely different from what you want. You start complaining telling him that it is completely different from what you agreed with the client therefore expect to get. He bluntly replied telling that he understand this but HE THINKS the way he does is much better.
With all do respect to his good will in giving me back something which is even better than what I asked, it is completely deteriorating. What do I have to tell the client? “Another few days because of technical reasons which we did not predict before?” Whilst I appreciate inputs, I would expect that if he thinks of something different but better than what I instructed, he should have discussed it with me before spending time to implement it. It is a surprise, damn right. Unfortunately a bad one.
I do want my people to think and express their opinion. Maybe they have something better than what I have in mind. I am open for discussion. But … No surprises please.
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