At Work with The Ready 150. Giving Our Feedback Some Feedback
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Nov 21, 2022 
Why does workplace feedback feel so fraught, and can teams make it safer without copying Bridgewater’s intense feedback culture? Aaron and Rodney explore rituals for constructive critique, power dynamics, and three kinds of feedback: the work itself, how someone affects others, and whether they’re honoring role agreements. They also debate how personal preferences and tradeoffs shape the feedback we give and receive.
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Feedback Systems are Hard
- Create a feedback system that works.
- Doing so is difficult, but not having one is harder.
Feedback in Self-Managing vs. Traditional Cultures
- In non-self-managing cultures, bad feedback systems are worse.
- Self-managing cultures offer project mobility to escape unproductive feedback situations.
Bridgewater's Extreme Feedback
- Bridgewater's feedback system, while effective for them, isn't universally applicable.
- It's intense, potentially traumatizing, and relies on constant evaluation.