When someone arrives four minutes late to an eight-person meeting, that's 32 minutes of wasted time. Public criticism for repeated mistakes teaches the whole team, not just the offender. Private feedback works for sensitive issues, but transparency about clear errors builds accountability.
Usually what they say is you want to criticize in private, praise publicly. Sure, in some cases I do criticize privately, but in some cases, for example, if there's 8 of us sitting in a meeting and someone is late 4 minutes, that meeting isn't 4 minutes late, it's 32 minutes late. I feel comfortable criticizing in public because if someone's gonna make a mistake, that's okay, okay? But we all should learn from that mistake. There shouldn't be— we should hide it because then what's happening? Those people might start to make the same mistake again, right?
