Weekly Mix #268 - Giving Great Feedback, Deep Conversations, Time Billionaires & Doing What You Can't

Giving Great Feedback, Deep Conversations, Time Billionaires & Doing What You Can't

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Happy Monday!

Feedback is a gift.

As humans, we live in our own little world. It's very difficult to get specific, actionable advice on how to improve.

Which is why high performers appreciate those people that give them great feedback.

Here's how you can be one of those people:

Don't wait: When you have feedback for someone, don't wait to give it. Doing so only makes it more awkward, and will make the other person think you've been thinking about it in the interim.

Be direct: Don't follow the "sandwich" rule. If you have positive feedback, give it. If you have negative feedback, give that too. But don't feel you need to sandwich two positive things around something negative. People see through it. Be consistent both ways.

Criticize the behaviour, not the person: "Your ideas are terrible." is bad. "I think the idea you outlined in this report needs more detail and thought." is good. A good format is: when you do X, it causes Y. "When you don't give enough detail in a report, it causes the team to lose faith in the project."

Offer a solution: People love to have direction and appreciate if you've thought about how to help. If you really can't come up with a suggestion for improvement or a solution, at least communicate that you've spent time on it and been stumped.

Give great feedback and watch the people around you improve.

Graham

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Links

📚 Book Notes: Monetizing Innovation by Georg Tacke & Madhavan Ramanujam - An excellent, detailed book about how to implement better monetization practices within companies developing new products.

Equally applicable to startups as to enterprise companies, the principles of this book are something that almost every company fails to do.

Reading the book is the first step; the principles must be implemented to have any impact. A great book for product managers, executives, founders and marketers alike.

🃏 The School of Life - Table Talk Placecards - This is one of many versions available, but I heard them mentioned on a podcast and loved the idea.

The deck of cards provides a list of questions to spark meaningful conversations.

It's a great hack to have deeper conversations when you go out to dinner with friends or family. So often we end up having surface level conversations—which is fine sometimes—when the really meaningful conversations are the ones we remember and that make a difference in the relationship.

🍿 Do What You Can't - Casey Neistat - For anyone that needs some motivation this week, I stumbled upon this classic video from Casey Neistat, which summarizes his philosophy (and life).

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April 23rd 2023

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