Sandberg: Leaders must make it safe for teams to call out managerial mistakes
Sheryl Sandberg · Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: Lead, lead again · Oct 6, 2017 · at 10:25
Sheryl Sandberg reflects on realizing she had become a bottleneck in Google's hiring process because her team hesitated to tell her directly.
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“If they didn't tell me that was on me, and I realized I have to make it safe for y'all to speak up when I'm messing up.”
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