Google Assistant

Mike Elgan suggests that Google is likely to develop the most useful virtual assistant .

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Offering Constructive Criticism

Mark Murphy offers a tip for constructive criticism . He notes that most managers do not focus on actionable, performance oriented feedback, but blame events or other people for bad news. Murphy states:

Approach the feedback with fact-based communication that tells your people “awesome performance looks like this, and your performance doesn’t look like this, so let’s talk about how to get you to awesome.” Owning feedback in this way, instead of blaming someone else, carries weight. It lets your people know you’re serious, it engenders respect, and it makes them accountable to making the desired behavioral changes.

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Avoiding Bad Advice

David Perlmutter provides suggestions on Avoiding Bad Advice . Perlmutter's tips include:

1. Think critically
2. Triangulate conflicting advice
3. Hear out seemingly useless advice
4. Politely shy away from suggested activities that divert you from your goal
5. Some advice is only suggested as an option to consider
6. Advice from a committed leader/champion should be heavily weighted
7. Flee malicious advisors.

Perlmutter's tips have strong similarities to other advice for evaluating information and information sources, but target the rising academic rather than a student evaluating Web resources.

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