Gen Z doesn’t have a feedback problem. We all do

When I started my first company, the only feedback my team ever got from me was praise. I was too scared to be critical. This was in the 2010s, when you couldn’t go a day without seeing a headline about millennials and how we coddled we were. Leaders claimed that they had to walk on eggshells around us, fearing that if they gave the “participation generation” anything but praise, we would quit. As a leader of millennials myself at the time, it felt like there was some truth in that. But it...