April 11, 2003

Your solution may be "somewhat suboptimal"
Posted by jbutler@bostonworks.com">Jason Butler at 6:47 AM -

If you want to meet success in the working world, it helps to be thick-skinned. Here are five tips from Entrepreneur.com on how to handle criticism elegantly.

No matter how successful you are, you'll eventually face criticism, whether from customers, other entrepreneurs, family and friends, or even employees. How do you effectively handle criticism and keep yourself and your company moving forward?

I found this link at the end of a very interesting weblog post by Robert Scoble, in which he talks about some very pointed criticism he recently received, and how he can best respond.

Here at BostonWorks World Headquarters, we have our product development meeting each Thursday morning, during which one of the highlights is reviewing all the feedback from the website (usually 20-40 pieces each week). Some of the comments are quite pointed, but they help us set direction for fixing and tweaking the site. So, if you have questions, comments, suggestions, or flames, please send 'em in.

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