Social Insanity

I came across this statement the other day – ‘ Stop asking blind people to proofread your vision ’ – keeping the egoistic, self-serving and somewhat quote nature of the statement. I wanted to decipher a logical question – Feedback is ALWAYS useful and it does unmitigated and unalloyed GOOD? Let’s look into the science of Feedback to assess this statement. Feedback is about telling people what we think of their performance and how they should do it better—whether they’re giving an effective presentation, leading a team, or creating a strategy. And on that, the research is clear: Telling people what we think of their performance doesn’t help them thrive and excel, and telling people how we think they should improve actually hinders learning. More on that later. Underpinning the current conviction that feedback is an unalloyed good are three theories which the business world commonly accept as truths. I personally find all of them fascinating but it’s important we assess them to judge t...