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A strong colleague submits a weak draft. The deadline was short, the brief changed, and several assumptions were never made explicit. Still, the disappointment can quickly become a conclusion about them: perhaps they are careless, less capable than you thought, or no longer committed. Begin with the work. Identify what is missing and what a better version needs to do. Then understand the conditions around it. This does not remove accountability or require you to soften a clear standard. It keeps one result from becoming a verdict before you have enough evidence. People can respond to specific feedback; they cannot usefully respond to a character judgment disguised as one. Leadership asks you to notice patterns, but a single difficult moment is not yet a pattern. Give the person a fair chance to repair the work and show you what happened. The standard can remain high while your judgment remains patient enough to become accurate.
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