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CM 217: Anh Dao Pham on How to Succeed as a Project Leader

Curious Minds at Work

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Are You Unhappy With Your Expectations?

People tend to be unhappy when their expectations are out of allinment, not because of the actual thing, but because they expected something else. For example, if you have a team that is going to need to work really hard for the next week in your expecting them to work 12 hour days,. If you don't give them advanced notice that that's going to happen, and then on the first day that they need to start working longer, you just ask them to stay. That's going to create a lot of friction and make your team extremely unhappy. On the flip side, they may not be as unhappy if you ask them two weeks in advance, like at on this third week,

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