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Here's The Rub: We Don't Believe You

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Here's The Rub: We Don't Believe You

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  • 来源: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/heres-the-rub-we-dont-believe-you/
  • 评分: v=6, c=7, v×c=42, stars=4
  • 评估理由: Well-written leadership advice from an experienced practitioner with a distinctive voice and useful framing devices ('Here's the rub', 'You'll know it working when'). The 'Sarah' example and mystery-finding approach to 1:1s offer genuine insight. However, the article is clearly truncated mid-sentenc

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Published Time: 2026-06-15T11:29:20-07:00

Markdown Content: Welcome, new leader. We’re glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can’t wait to see what you can do at this company. We’re going to say that we’re not in a hurry and you should take your time, but we’re in a hurry.

Before you arrive, we’re going to tell you what we think needs to be fixed. You should listen to us, but the issue is that we probably don’t know what is broken. Either we’re too busy to notice, or we’re too close to the source material. We wrote the current script, so we’re required to believe it is good. It’s not. It’s a disaster, and it’s breaking, and we need you to investigate, and then to tell us what’s wrong.

Here’s the rub. We’re not going to believe you when you tell us. If that all feels like a trap, it’s not — it’s just senior leadership.

Hi, Rands here. I’m not typically this prescriptive, as every individual, team, and company has different values and culture. Thing is: everything I include in the checklist is a tactic I’ve used at wildly different companies for the past twenty years. This might say more about me than the teams and companies, but

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  • Here’s the rub.** We’re not going to believe you when you tell us. If that all feels like a trap, it’s not — it’s just senior leadership.

  • Recurring 1:1s with Inner Circle

  • This is a human with some juicy signal about the state of our teams — keep meeting.
  • This is a human who has a signal that I have already heard — don’t meet again.
  • This is a human whom I sure like, but who doesn’t really have signal — don’t meet again, have lunch occasionally. You never know.
  • Everyone we just defined for Staff.

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