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Author Elif Batuman. Plus, our obsession with feedback

Life and Art from FT Weekend

CHAPTER

Are You Using Your Capabilities?

In the nineties, Abraham started to indicate that feedback didn't work. One of his studies found that in more than 30 % of cases, people's performance after getting feedback actually declined. So he changed his mind. He basically said, rather than like a performance development review or three 60 feedback, he prefers this thing that he developed called the feed forward interview. And i was quite nervous, because i didn't really know what would happen. It sounds kind of weird, but in the moment it actually felt quite powerful, and i could really visualize it. I did sort of give myself some critical feedback in the process.

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