Mr. Sondashi

Feedback is the breakfast of champions....

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

'Make up your mind...battles are not bad, bondage is.' @vladhungrygen this is deep...

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

Android was sold to us as an open platform. Now Google wants every developer to register and submit ID just to let you install their apps. Don't let them rug-pull 3 billion users. https://t.co/oBdXAL8eCv @AlteredDeal #KeepAndroidOpen

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

@ozyzenda @Bhuti_Steve @Kgadi_yaMoloto Sometimes you find posts that shatter your world view

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

@onlydubsX She is hard to listen to

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

Every time you accepted a salary, chose a price, or walked into a negotiation, the other person was running GAME THEORY in their head.

You were guessing.

This 1-hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak will permanently change how you read people and make decisions.

Most MBAs pay $150k to learn this. Yale posted it for free:

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

@Chipetcute @Simon_Ingari Seen this happen before not entirely fiction

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

Day made 🤣🤣🤣

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

@VideosLoungeee If I the writer I would let him kill her in this scene claiming she went mad, creating a repetition of history, and he would go to the north as the king, survive the dead and have an epic fight with Jon snow at the end while dernarys would deal with the guy who had ships.

[Nancy Isime @NancyIsime678]

Avoid WOMEN who don't understand how hard it is to make money.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Change happens the moment you decide this‼️‼️

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

@thekingsmanUG Torres

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This forgotten mouse experiment is now more relatable than ever.

[Tempesttdenise @tempesttdenise]

Parents make their children have a dance off when they fight. 😂😂

I should have done this 😂😂😂

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

This hit harder than any parenting advice I've ever heard‼️‼️

[ICT's Daughter @SheTradesIct]

I watched this video every 6AM in the morning for 4years

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“When I got married, I was making more money than my husband. Thirteen years later, he got his big break and started making more money” — Businesswoman Ibukun Awosika

[Mr. Sondashi @SBenaiah]

The fall off album by J Cole honestly very disappointing and a bad album, maybe it's because I am nolonger a fan but honestly people should be honest.... That album is not a good one....