"Workplace feedback expert" —Harvard Business Review. I'm a professor at Penn State on a mission to build feedback literacy for all. Nearly 10,000 students in my poetry class. 2,000+ leaders attended my feedback webinar with Harvard. Each week, 3MR offers a reframe to help you live with more clarity and courage.
3MR: A 100-year-old book, and you
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In 1924, a psychology professor named Robert Chenault Givler published The Ethics of Hercules, arguing that our ethical values and our bodies should not be studied apart — that our bodies provide important signals that shape our values and our ability to make decisions. It was a radical idea then and still is today in 2026, a time when many of us are told to believe that pure brainpower or AI tools can solve everything. One look around the world’s events and I can’t help but ask: How’s that going? Many of us were conditioned to believe that hard decisions are basically mental math. That a good decision will arise if we just crunch the variables or run them through a framework. What if that were only partly true? What if having sweaty palms before a difficult conversation was actually important data — something not to push through or stuff down but to learn from? Like Givler, I believe it is. I wrote about why and how we can practice for AACSB.
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"Workplace feedback expert" —Harvard Business Review. I'm a professor at Penn State on a mission to build feedback literacy for all. Nearly 10,000 students in my poetry class. 2,000+ leaders attended my feedback webinar with Harvard. Each week, 3MR offers a reframe to help you live with more clarity and courage.
This week's reframe is about the ripple effect of openly seeking feedback. Click to watch on YouTube Episode Transcript The Seeking Feedback Modeling card states, "When you seek feedback, it makes it easier for others to do the same. Openly normalizing the vulnerability needed for growth has a powerful ripple effect." And the card invites you to practice what's called the signal, which you can do by asking someone whose opinion you value, "I'm trying to improve my... What specific changes...
For decades, the career advice was to become T-shaped: to develop mastery of one domain (the vertical part of the T) and then pair that with a general set of skills (the horizontal part of the T). It was and still is useful advice. But it’s no longer enough. I spent 18 months at Cisco on a project that touched millions of people in 195 countries. The colleagues who moved the project forward weren't the deepest specialists or the broadest generalists. They were something rarer. They had...
This week's reframe covers when (and why) to state your intent before giving challenging feedback. Click to watch on YouTube Episode Transcript The Giving Feedback Intent card states, "State your positive intent. If the receiver assumes you don't have their best interest in mind, even great feedback may not land well." And the card invites you to use what's called the preface, something like, "I'm sharing this because I believe in what you're doing, and I think one thing could make it even...