"Sh*t Sandwich"

Happy Monday fam 👋 Do you personally use sh*t sandwiches? Do you think it works well as a technique to deliver behavioural feedback or do you prefer to give straightforward feedback?

Ben Horowitz refers it on The Hards Thing About Hard Things that it's a method usually works but not when people are able to detect it and when it's used a lot.

For those who need the context, sh*t sandwich term is:

• The manager begins with praise (first layer of bread)
• then offers criticism (...sh*t)
• then closes again with praise (second layer of bread)

supposedly making the negative feedback more palatable by sandwiching it between two compliments because essentially you're trying to show it's not personal, you're trying to give feedback about the situation