keasley45
Well-known member
Really?
How is this a knock on Wilson? What do you expect him to say if asked?
So I know there's an element of 'what was he supposed to say ' in that response. But this is psych 101. In corporate settings when 3rd party companies whose business is restructuring or management training do analysis of managers to figure out why leadership is faltering, they use basic responses like this.
If consciously considered, people who are asked will often default to identifying things they like vs don't like... or what manager A does that manager B doesn't do. Subconsciously, the answers often stem more from the like v don't like.
It's psych 101 and pretty consistent.
There are elements like 'trying to be PC' or trying not to saying anything too harsh about a manager an employee doesn't like, but human response is pretty consistent. I've found the above to be true in 10 plus years of doing leadership coaching and culture building.
Remember when players were asked about Geno?
unanimous answer from players -
1. He's a team guy
2. He's one of the guys
3. He's a leader
Unanimous answers from coaches-
1. He's coachable
2. He does what you ask
3. He's in command of the offense.
So you can certainly say it's coincidence, but when those things are the first thing you hear, sometimes it's intentionally underscoring a difference between guy A and guy B based on preference and sometimes it's knee-jerk reaction to just say what's most different.
And we know that the knocks on Russ have stemmed from him not being the 6 things above. Leadership wasn't as much of a knock, but with Russ it was Russ's very unique way. That's 200% not coincidence.