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Another great reminder that humans are programmable robots and just do what they're incentivized to do. I'm generalizing, of course... but that doesn't make it not true. =)
Just wanted to drop a line to say we're including this article in our newsletter this week! https://blissbook.com/newsletter
Thanks for writing this.
Tom O'Dea
CEB Study Shows Eliminating Performance Reviews Causes Managers to Suck More - Not Less.
I know, I know. You think performance reviews suck. You're probably right, they probably do. But is the alternative - not doing them at all - really better? I've always thought the biggest lie with the sexy, "we're eliminating performance reviews" clique was the assumption that managers of pe...
Hi Bob,
Thanks for posting this excerpt. So great that we linked to it in our weekly newsletter. If you want to check that out, you can do it on our blog: blissbook.com/blog
Reminds me of what Steve Blank wrote about Tim Cook and Apple: https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple/
I would argue that Kapor's problem isn't that he didn't want to run a big company, it's that he didn't believe that he *could* run a big company *his* way, so he farmed it out.
The Dark Side of Scaling Up: Will You Want to Live in What You Build?
My Stanford colleague Huggy Rao and I devoted seven years to learning about what it takes to scale up excellence in organizations. We studied how leaders and teams build and identify pockets of goodness in organizations and spread such goodness to more people and places -- about the moves ne...
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