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The performance review. It really is one of the very most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate and business activities. Most of us hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it.
Until now...
Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management master and UCLA professor, minces no words as he places managers on observe that -- with the performance review as their weapon of choice -- they have built a corporate and business culture based on intimidation and dread. Teaming up with Wall structure Street Journal Senior Editor Lawrence Rout, he shows us why performance reviews are bogus and how they undermine both creativity and output. And he places a good deal of the blame squarely on recruiting specialists, who perpetuate the very practice that they must be trying to remove.
But Culbert does more than merely tear down. He offers an alternative -- the performance preview -- that will actually accomplish the jobs that performance reviews were likely to, but never will: retaining people accountable for their actions and their results, and providing managers and their workers the sort of feedback they need for increasing their skills and to give the company more of what it needs.
With passion, laughter, and a exceptional insight into what motivates most of us to do our best, Culbert offers most of us a chance to be better professionals, better employees and, indeed, better people. Culbert has long said his goal is to make the world of work fit for human being consumption. "Eliminate Performance Review!" shows us how to do that.
