Samuel Culbert writes that it’s time for companies to do away with performance reviews. “Everybody does it, and almost everyone who’s evaluated hates it. It’s a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a corporate plus.” It’s not that managers shouldn’t be reviewing performance, he writes, but regularly scheduled reviews are “fraudulent” and reinforce an employee’s feelings of being dominated.
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Unexceptional Performance
Samuel Culbert writes that companies should do away with regularly scheduled performance reviews because they are "fraudulent" and reinforce an employee's feelings of being dominated.
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April 2026
In this monthly issue, we examine how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving.
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