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Aishwarya Kapoor

3 Rules for Giving a Colleague Feedback in an Indian Office Without Damaging the Bond

Rule 1: Never Give Feedback Where Anyone Else Can Hear It

The Indian office runs on reputation in ways that most management textbooks do not account for. A colleague corrected in front of peers does not hear the content of the feedback. They hear the humiliation. Whatever point you were making gets buried under the need to recover face, and you become the person who caused that moment, not the person who tried to help.

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