It is this time of the year: many companies are doing their performance reviews and calibrations. So, make sure to recall what you did last year, write something nice about your peers. Keep calm and carry on.

Here is a nice small write-up on performance reviews, specifically its dark side. One thing to take away from there:

> If you want them to MAYBE change, talk to them directly. If you want them to get stabbed by management, put it in their performance review.

Here's also an opinion piece from Rory Sutherland - a vice chairman of the Ogilvy & Mather group - where he explains how individual performance goals jeopardizes risk taking with potential sharable results.

P.S. Another interesting topics when talking about performance reviews in the way they are today is the use of AI. I know for sure that people use it to write those reviews, and it can be definitely used to analyze a huge influx of reviews. Thus, we are one step closer to a singularity in which machines will write reports for other machines to read, so us, flesh bags, can focus on our work.

#culture #bureaucracy