Essentials
If feedback is a gift, why does it keep punching us in the face? “Your test coverage didn’t grow as much as we asked, you should care about quality more.” “You should be be better prepared for our meeting.” “You should care enough about this company to pick up
Feedback
Decision: from tomorrow you are going to make all the meetings in your organization 100% optional. Truly optional — no (more) repercussions for people not showing up. What’s going to happen now? In the perfect organization, nothing happens at all. People are invited to meetings where they feel they can
No More
Where does our obsession with feedback come from? “Please give me feedback!” “Here’s a feedback form, please fill it in!” “The first 10 feedback submissions get a sticker!” And as we wait for feedback to trickle in, we read books on receiving books well, such as “Thanks for the
Feedback
One of the key ideas of Nonviolent Communication [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication] is to remove judgment from our language when we want to communicate constructively. I gave an example of this in Judgment is a Silent Killer [https://zef.me/musing/judgment-is-a-silent-killer/]: > I shared feedback with
Feedback
I wanted to to tell you this last week as a reaction to your last piece, but it sounded like feedback, so I dropped it. It appears the result of my public musing on toxicity of feedback has resulted in feedback deprivation: a few people have admitted they would have
Feedback
In April I wrote about the No More Feedback [https://zef.plus/musing/no-more-feedback/] book. Ever since it’s been in the back of my mind, and I’ve played with and researched some ideas on this topic. Let me share some of my musings and insights. A brief recap
No More
Last weekend I read Carol Sanford’s “No More Feedback” [https://amzn.to/2S2OZ2C] . It’s an intriguing book, and resulted in a “falling of my faith” type of situation. She challenges many “core beliefs” that I hold (or have been taught to hold). As a means for me to