🖐️ Very specific high fives
Book of TREE 2.48
When you praise people, make sure that it is honest and specific.
It’s easy to have negative specificity.
‘I didn’t like that slide because…’
‘You need to improve the way you do this job by doing…’
When done well, negative specificity can be good and helpful. Being specifically positive can be even better and more helpful because it’s rarer and general positivity tends to bounce off and be forgotten.
Randall Stutman says, ‘… make that positive set of remarks be as vivid and elaborate and as detailed as the negative is going to be’.
And make it honest. Gotta be honest.
People don’t necessarily know what they are doing well. Tell them, specifically and vividly, what you see. They will be grateful and happy. You’ll be happy too.
This is awfully cheerful for a Monday. Maybe it will be contagious.
Print update: Invincible Summer will be large. At A2 (420 × 594 mm / 16.5 × 23.5 in), it’s big enough to make a statement but not so huge you have remortgage your house to pay for a frame. I’ll show you the whole thing tomorrow. We’ll vote on the paper Wednesday and Thursday. I’ll open orders for 10 prints on Friday. For now, here’s the top right corner:
Let’s do this week
Jeff