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Cliff Hazell

3y ago

I help Tech Companies build Leadership habits that relieve growth pains | Helped @Spotify grow from 700-5k

I’m skeptical of performance management 🤨
Cliff Hazell

Particularly individual measurement in a complex environment.

Since results come from the interactions between people, this is more important than how any single part performs. Measuring individual parts starts at the wrong end.

It creates too much tension 💢

E.g., I'm less likely to help you if it negatively impacts my bonus/promotion. It can create issues across departments and functions, not only in teams.

Worried about "dead wood" in your company? 🪓

"If you have dead wood in your company, 

you either hired dead wood.

Or hired live wood and killed it."

What about feedback on specific behavior? ↩️

Handle this in real-time rather than waiting until late in the year.

When it's irrelevant.

Most arguments for why we should do it start with the assumption we have to do it. For these folks, it's just a question of how. 

Why do we need it at all?

🤔 What do you think?

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