feedback Quotes

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

Learn from your unhappy customers.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the... ...

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory.