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Warner Crocker | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 No more “feedback” instead “feedforward.” Lordy we are doomed. #WASF

Bosses Say ‘Feedback’ Is Too Scary for Some Workers, So They Use This Word Instead https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/companies-worker-management-feedback-feedforward-hr-9758d6a7

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7221088f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @edc128e6 Ugh. Not only is it word theater, it tramples on existing definitions.

Feedforward is already a thing in control theory, the place the term "feedback" comes from. A 'feedforward loop' is predicting how the system should behaved based upon an idealized model of it and outputting the relevant commands to get the desired result assuming the system matches the idealized model.

... in other words, extrapolated, it's either planning or micromanagement.