Comments on: Difference Between Success and Failure

By: Shavonda Bencomo

Shavonda Bencomo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:03:07 +0000

Wow I love the subject that you are chatting about. I've bookmarked this blog

By: Wayan Dewantara

Wayan Dewantara — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:36:39 +0000

Manager will be able to help his/her subordinates to exercise discretionary decision when s/he, the manager, can completely transfer the value of the work to the subordinates. Not until then, s/he will not have a productive discussion.

By: Arlene Breitkreuz

Arlene Breitkreuz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:20:40 +0000

Interesting commentary. I would have responded exactly the same way as was noted in the blog. "Discretionary decisions" are clearly the key differentiator between Success and Failure. Clearly it is important to have productive discussions with my team - I look forward to the remainder of the course to learn how to do this!

By: Sean Price

Sean Price — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:33:16 +0000

Thanks Tom for this series. It has put into perspective what is going on with some members of my team.

We are performing performance appraisals right now and I have been disappointed with the performance of an early career employee. The only way I could describe it is his lack of professionalism. The work is in software development and although he completes a section of code it may not be tested completely. Or documented properly. He has completed the task but not the work. Now I see it is in the judgments on the discretionary parts of the task which ultimately lead to the completion of the work. This is not squishy behavior! It can be documented and discussed.

Now I am more comfortable the performance discussion leads to improvement (for him and me).