Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Chapter 7 Performance Issues

Managers, you should know that the greatest military strategist of all time says, toward the end of Chapter 7, that when you have an enemy surrounded, you should always provide the enemy an escape route.

Applied to how you deal with your subordinates when one of them makes a mistake, this translates (loosely) into: “Back off and let him/her save face!”

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