Quotes About Feedback

We develop features before infrastructure and frequently show those features to stakeholders.

Every time you write a comment, you should grimace and feel the failure of your ability of expression.

One of the problems with anecdotes is that they tend to be provided by the satisfied customers, not the unsatisfied or dead ones.

This means that you move toward challenges that will toughen and improve you, where you will get the most objective feedback on your performance and progress. You do not choose apprenticeships that seem easy and comfortable.

At a certain point, we move from student to practitioner. We try out our own ideas, gaining valuable feedback in the process. We use our expanding knowledge in ways that are increasingly creative. Instead of just learning how others do things, we bring our own style and individuality into play.

So," said Ruth, "how bad is it?" "You haven't read it?" "Not all of it." "Well," I said, politely, "it needs some work." "How much?" The words "Hiroshima" and "nineteen forty-five" floated briefly into my mind. "It's fixable," I said, which I suppose it was: even Hiroshima was fixed eventually.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly. If leaders are the problem, we ask those being served by leaders to let them know or go up the chain of command—without the threat of retaliation." "Store

Characteristics of sound feedback include that it should be frequent, give students a clear picture of their progress and how they might improve, and provide encouragement.

we suggest that observers rely primarily on anecdotal feedback during walkthroughs.

The only feedback teachers receive is whether they use the strategy. Such a process provides no feedback as to the level of skill a teacher exhibits relative to a particular strategy. This absence violates a basic principle of effective feedback

simply providing teachers with feedback that they either used a strategy or did not use a strategy does little to enhance teacher expertise.

When a lesson was observed by a supervisor and followed with a postconference, teachers talked less and were less reflective during the postconference than when engaged in a video-based reflection

Bridgewater's Ray Dalio, for example, places a high premium on what he calls "radical open-mindedness," by which he means something qualitatively beyond a mere willingness to listen to a competing view when and if it comes to call. "To be radically open-minded," he says, "you need to be so open to the possibility that you might be making a mistake and/or that you have a weakness that you encourage others to tell you so.

Like the two other DDOs, Next Jump challenges employees by moving them into roles for which they're not yet prepared to succeed and then provides them with steady streams of feedback to help them grow into those roles. In all three companies, if you're completely able to perform your role, it's no longer the right role for you; it has no 'stretch' left.

Before issuing a single directive or making a single decision, a leader should talk to people at every level of her organization, from the front office to the mail room. Career employees often have startlingly insightful views about the strengths and weaknesses of their organization, which of course they know well; as a result, they often have well-informed ideas for practical ways to improve it.

Games reflect behavior. They are instant feedback systems.

daily routine at work was to find their faults, point those flaws out to them, and

is responsive, not proactive. Give him candid feedback. He doesn't show the passion for the role we need.

most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in 'Annie Laurie', but I can't recall that it helped much.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.