If you’d only say it anonymously, it probably didn’t need saying.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Anonymity removes the cost of saying something, and that cost was doing a great deal of quiet work. Wanting your name off it means you already know how it would land attached, so you are after the effect without the responsibility. Some things genuinely need protecting, like reporting something dangerous. Most of what gets said namelessly is not that.

Run the test before you post: would you say this with your face on it, to the person. If the answer is yes, say it that way instead, and it will almost certainly land better. If no, you have just saved two people a bad week.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What have you posted that you would not sign your name to?

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