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Thanks for the Feedback

Written by: Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone
Narrated by: Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone
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Publisher's Summary

The coauthors of the New York Times best-selling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: How we see ourselves.

Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past 15 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.

©2014 Douglas Stone (P)2014 Penguin Audio
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What the critics say

"Thanks for the Feedback is an extraordinarily useful book. It's full of helpful techniques that can be put to use by anyone seeking to manage an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship.... Stone and Heen have done a remarkable job of showing individuals and organizations how to leverage the enormous value of feedback, one of the most powerful instruments available for human learning." (strategy+business magazine)

"Surprisingly little attention has been focused on being an effective recipient of feedback. Enter Stone and Heen with a well-rounded consideration of 'the science and art of receiving feedback well'. As they write, both of those disciplines are required to receive feedback in productive ways - not only in the workplace, but in personal life as well....the authors do an excellent job of constraining the applications to feedback usefulness while also exploring some of the other ways we can define what "feedback" consists of in our lives. With a culture increasingly focused on the individual and the self, this book on developing the ability to accept and utilize the input of others constructively deserves a wide readership." (Kirkus Reviews)

"I'll admit it: Thanks for the Feedback made me unconformable. And that's one reason I liked it so much. With keen insight and lots of practical takeaways, Stone and Heen reveal why getting feedback is so hard - and then how we can do better. If you relish receiving criticism at work and adore it in your personal life, then you may be the one person on earth who can safely skip this book." (Daniel H. Pink, author of to Sell Is Human and Drive)

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Excellent book with how to approach and view feedback to help with effectiveness at work

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The art of giving good feedback .

A helpful look at how one give the feedback that is appropriate to what the individual needs. helpful for work and personal life.

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I learned a lot!

I learned a lot from this book! It has helped me navigate some and uneasy conversations over the last few months. I’m curious to read their other, older book on difficult conversations next.

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useful vook

excellent book. jam packed with advice that you can use on an every day basis. so thick with advice I'll have to listen to it a second time just to digest it all

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