What's the Point of Giving Critical Feedback?

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"People don't actually want to receive corrective feetback or critical feedback. But you mean to give it, because if they don't end up changing and growing, then they will get frustrated with you," he says. "So one of the things we did was try to maintain a ratio of about five praises to every one piece of corrective feedback."

Katie Wilde, the VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, joins us to spill the tea on Holacracy and decentralized management systems. Find out why these organizational structures don’t work for companies building software and how they can drive your best people away.

Katie also shared how her previous company, Buffer, transitioned from a Holacracy into a strong engineering leadership culture, through goal-oriented 1:1s, effective feedback, and creating a strong sense of responsibility among its leaders.

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