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Discussion on: The 5 golden rules for becoming a better leader.

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YuanHao Chiang • Edited

Good advice. I think health is really important and sometimes hard to measure, but if people are extremely edgy or as you say, hostile, it's a good indicator that some time off or half a day off is needed.

Recently I added a small bug into production (it wasn't serious, but it was on code that was out of my boundary and I did not test properly). When the leader from that team told me about it and saw how sorry I felt for it, he finished the conversation with: "It's okay, it can happen to anybody".

That made me feel great and it's also important to emphasize that mistakes (big or small) can happen to anyone and ever since, I almost always try to start any urgent issue with "it's fine", or "it's okay".