Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Success Effect

In The Success Effect (S&R) by John Eckberg, management guru Peter Block talks about why performance reviews are pointless: "They are punitive, demeaning and reinforce that somebody has sovereignty. Most people are so anxious in a performance review, they don't know what they are saying. The A students don't mind but everybody else, you have to threaten people to hold them. That tells me maybe that conversation isn't useful.
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