I was chatting with a friend about their disappointments in business. So, they have coached many staff. Their approach has been to coach in such a way as to teach tactical tricks, but not strategic fundamentals. So they pride themselves on being smarter than their staff. When their staff leave, they despise their staff, regarding them only as half-taught peons who will stagnate thereafter in life.
I don't understand this approach, at all. Sure, in the short-term, it drives the P&L forward a bit. But it seems ass-backwards to spend X amount of time to produce such lowly developments in talent, whereas with only a bit more attention to details, much better developments could have been made to the same students/children.
Further prodding revealed that the teacher did not have a high appraisal of the students' aptitude. This fully illustrates the fundamental errors ... if you hire people whose capabilities you despise, you will spend your entire time together despising them, and then even after you have separated.
This is a poor strategy for happiness, and the P&L.
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