{"id":530,"date":"2008-08-20T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T04:51:00","slug":"hear-no-evil-see-no-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/hear-no-evil-see-no-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News vs. Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do managers have a problem with hearing bad news?&#160; I know you&#39;re chuckling right now. But they really should welcome bad news with open arms.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Bad news can do the following if we let it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sober us up and give us a sense of reality &#8211; We crave and worship good news because we see it as the only thing to make us happy.&#160; If you&#39;ve read my blog before, you know how I feel about happiness-it&#39;s based on a choice that only you can make.<\/li>\n<li>Help us understand who is really interested in making things better &#8211; those who like to kiss ass won&#39;t be comfortable here.&#160; People who only deliver good news are not helping.&#160; Leaders who only want followers who deliver good news are drinking a poisonous cocktail.<\/li>\n<li>Help us discover our true leadership level &#8211; if you want to know how good a leader is, observe and take notes when bad news is delivered.<\/li>\n<li>Makes us question silence &#8211; a friend of mine gave his employer some bad news about a new customer and was cautioned about it.&#160; Don&#39;t know if they didn&#39;t like his tone or timing, but his employer didn&#39;t want to hear it.&#160; It made me think about all those employees that don&#39;t say anything.&#160; What do you think their level of engagement is?<\/li>\n<li>Helps us find the next breakthrough &#8211; isn&#39;t that what all organizations want?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do managers have a problem with hearing bad news?&#160; I know you&#39;re chuckling right now. But they really should welcome bad news with open arms.&#160; Bad news can do the following if we let it: Sober us up and give us a sense of reality &#8211; We crave and worship good news because we see&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,6,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}