Pete Hamill

Assessments can say a lot more about us than about the thing that we believe we are describing.

Pete Hamill

As human beings we love nothing more than being right, and […] when we are right, we are generally making someone else wrong. True humility is, at least in part, being able to see one’s own assessments as assessments, rather than believing them to be truths.

Mind Your Feedback

Douglas Stone, coauthor of Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Even When It Is Off-Base, Unfair, Poorly Delivered, and Frankly, You’re Not in the Mood), introduces a cautionary lesson in assessing others from Embodied Leadership: A Somatic Approach to Developing Your Leadership, by Pete Hamill.