Sheila Heen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.
-- Sheila Heen

#Organization #Leader #Culture
We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.
-- Sheila Heen

#Two #Keys #Growth
Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.
-- Sheila Heen

#Feedback
There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective: 1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand. 2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning. 3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.
-- Sheila Heen

#Appreciation #Organization #Coaching
People won't give you feedback until they think you actually want it.
-- Sheila Heen

#Thinking #People #Giving
The five C's of expanding your capacity. 1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks. 5. Increase your commitment.
-- Sheila Heen

#Commitment #Character #Connections
Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?
-- Sheila Heen

#People #Information #Kind
Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.
-- Sheila Heen

#Thinking #Term Paper #Tangled
We swim in an ocean of feedback.
-- Sheila Heen

#Ocean #Swim #Feedback

Power is the flower of organization.
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
One People, one Reign, one Leader.
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

Sheila Heen famous quotes

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