Receiving feedback

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A guide to the benefits and best practices

Six tips for soliciting radical candor.

The higher up in the organization you get, the less likely you’ll receive constructive feedback on your ideas, performance, or strategy. No one wants to offend the boss, right? But without input, your development will suffer, you may become isolated, and you’re likely to miss out on hearing some great ideas. So, what can you […]

Reviews are unpleasant. But they can work in your favor.

Making critical feedback “nice” doesn’t make it more effective.

Your employees want it, and you should too.

First, figure out why.

360-degree reviews aren’t enough.

The current process ends too soon.

What to do if your boss is stingy with pointers and advice.

A survey shows that gaining confidence makes you more open to change.

Negative feedback has a positive effect when it comes from an employee rather than a boss.

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Overcome unconscious bias using humility and empathy.

How to deal with it

To be a good leader, you have to know yourself.

Strategies to help people share fearlessly — and frequently.

How to turn upsetting or surprising information into helpful and productive data.

First, consider that it might be right.

Don’t take these traits to the extreme.

A guide to the benefits and best practices

Five years' worth of management wisdom, all in one place. Get the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in "5 Years...

Six tips for soliciting radical candor.