You can walk uphill every day and become stronger without ever being told that you've improved.
That's an interesting thing about leadership.
Standards matter. Pressure matters. Correction matters. But so does helping people understand where they actually stand.
Because if the only feedback comes when something goes wrong, even a thinking person eventually feels the weight of that silence.
Some reflections on military training, leadership, feedback, responsibility and what six weeks inside that system taught me about leading people.
The standard should be high.
But it shouldn't have to be silent.
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