Steve Jobs said great leaders make 1 difficult choice most managers avoid

There is a dangerous idea floating around the workplace: If you care about employees, you should avoid making them uncomfortable. That sounds compassionate. Sometimes it is. Other times, it is managerial cowardice disguised as servant leadership. Leaders who avoid difficult conversations leave people guessing. And capable employees miss opportunities to improve because nobody respected them enough to tell them the truth. Steve Jobs addressed this tension in a 2008 Fortune interview. Describing…