It can be tempting to respond to people with pithy soundbites, especially when you’re annoyed with them, but resist the urge. It’s quite obvious when you’re just saying things and there’s no substance behind it.

You need to be careful to say what you mean and have it be meaningful and appropriate to the situation at hand else, why speak?

My second episode in this series. I cover how, by rising through the ranks of a bad system, it’s near impossible to not be shaped and ruined by that system. Whatever ideals you might have once held can become twisted and you become what you once hated.

I have a new series on Youtube I’ll be doing highlighting some of the things managers like to say that are often misplaced, tone-deaf, and lead to trust and respect issues. Not that these things can never be said, there’s a right and wrong way