{"id":4655,"date":"2018-11-19T19:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:42:24","slug":"mary-catherine-bateson-on-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/11\/19\/mary-catherine-bateson-on-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Catherine Bateson on feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t really connected (business\/work) performance related feedback to systems control and cybernetics before, but this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker\">interview with Mary Catherine Bateson<\/a> made me think a lot. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lot2046.com\">Lot2046<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker\"><p>I would say that the great majority of Americans still believe that &#8220;positive feedback&#8221; is when someone pats you on the back and says you did a good job. What positive feedback is saying is, do more of the same. So, if what you\u2019re doing is taking heroin or quarreling with your neighbor, this is just going to lead to trouble. Negative feedback corrects what you\u2019re doing. It\u2019s not somebody saying, &#8220;That was a lousy speech.&#8221; It\u2019s somebody saying, &#8220;Reverse course. Stop building more bombs. Stop taking in more alcohol faster. Slow down.&#8221; Negative feedback is corrective feedback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t really connected (business\/work) performance related feedback to systems control and cybernetics before, but this interview with Mary Catherine Bateson made me think a lot. (Via Lot2046) I would say that the great majority of Americans still believe that &#8220;positive feedback&#8221; is when someone pats you on the back and says you did a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/11\/19\/mary-catherine-bateson-on-feedback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Catherine Bateson on feedback&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}