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During year-end performance review, one of the minor feedback items is my “selective listening” and other listening skills.

 

My manager gave an example — During a long technical design meeting, our senior manager said errors should be saved to a log table, not just to log files. I felt My team lead didn't fully agree but nobody objected. I thought my team lead might give me detailed instructions how he wants to implement it, or even postpone this feature, so I didn't act on this decision.

 

In a subsequent meeting, when managers asked me about this feature, I said there was no such decision. This was cited as forgetting/ignoring an important agreement of an important meeting.