LinkedIn's CEO Uses This Management Trick To Avoid Feedback Confusion

Jeff Weiner learned firsthand the potential pitfalls of dolling out take-it-or-leave-it input to team members. Several years ago, a LinkedIn employee told him that when Weiner would offer what he saw as casual feedback about something, like a proposed product update, the team working on it would automatically assume that his off-hand suggestion was an order. His comment would turn into a "massively disruptive fire drill" as the team scrambled to make whatever change they thought their boss requi...