Send us Fan Mail Avoiding difficult conversations with employees can feel like the kind thing to do, especially when you genuinely care about the people on your team. You tell yourself you’ll address it next week. You drop a few hints. Maybe they have a really good day and you start wondering if the problem is fixing itself. But while you’re waiting, the cost of that conversation doesn’t disappear. It just moves somewhere else. In this episode, I’m sharing the story of a founder who was deali...