Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

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Penguin, Mar 31, 2015 - Business & Economics - 368 pages
The coauthors of the New York Times–bestselling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: how we see ourselves

Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice. Thanks for the Feedback is destined to become a classic in the fields of leadership, organizational behavior, and education.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
THREE TRIGGERS
15
SEPARATE APPRECIATION COACHING AND EVALUATION
29
FIRST UNDERSTAND
46
SEE YOUR BLIND SPOTS
77
DONT SWITCHTRACK
102
IDENTIFY THE RELATIONSHIP SYSTEM
123
LEARN HOW WIRING AND TEMPERAMENT
147
DISMANTLE DISTORTIONS
165
CULTIVATE A GROWTH IDENTITY
183
NAVIGATE THE CONVERSATION
229
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DOUGLAS STONE and SHEILA HEEN are lecturers on law at Harvard Law School and cofounders of Triad Consulting. They both live in New England.

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