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People must have a lot of faith in management to assume they have any idea who the good employees are

• anonreeeeplor 4y ago
  Exactly! They have no idea. If you average someone into a crowd of average people, who interfere, take credit, undercut, etc. You will have absolutely no idea who is good or bad if you are slightly removed. A good test is to ask how good you think someone from a neighboring group is who you have never worked with directly. Is that guy really a qualified “strategist?” No fucking idea never seen him do anything directly.
  • wjnc 4y ago
    I’d put it somewhat differently. I think you can have an adequate interpretation of quality for say the closest 100 colleagues if you have enough interactions. However, the skills you’ll be basing your judgement on will be different for different groups And will probably not be the same skills as their manager would be scoring them on. Communication skills will tend to dominate harder skills if the organizational distance increases. I don’t think that’s false per se, I do think that there is a risk views get unbalanced.
    • swagasaurus-rex 4y ago
      Some managers are so focused on micromanagement, they literally can’t tell who the top performers who work for them are. All they see is the attitudes, number of check ins, clock in times, and completely ignore the results