I see three separate stories: - Nadella is pushing for "Growth Mindset", which is academically unsound and possibly incorrect. He is using his position to forc

I see three separate stories: - Nadella is pushing for "Growth Mindset", which is academically unsound and possibly incorrect. He is using his position to force people to read it. - Microsoft have twice-a-year performance reviews called "Connect" where the employee have to explain how they satisfy unclearly-defined and company values. Those can only be evaluated subjectively by managers, but decide very important things like will this person be fired, or will they get a raise. Because of that, they are very stressful and many people hate them. - Microsoft is teaching people to use AI for performance reviews. As all AI's do, it hallucinates and provides outright wrong information. And yet, it is used for critical things. The first point is a curious anecdote, but it's hard for me to feel outraged about it. I've worked for big companies, and the top-level company mission never seemed like anything useful to me, it's just some random words that CEO likes to put on the slides. I agree with the second point - semi-annual self-reviews suck. I've had to do them in the past - they can potentially have a huge impact, so you have to take them seriously. But at the same time, _most_ of the time they have no effect, so after you've spent all this time writing it, it just goes to waste. I just don't see what it has to do with "Growth Mindset" - it could have been anything else, even "community identity stability". Those reviews often have a vague question that let managers exercise their judgement, and it does not matter if they are called "Demonstrate your Growth Mindset" or "Demonstrate your Customer Excellence". As for AI part.. yeah... this sounds crazy (but somewhat predictable, given all the corporate attention to AI). My regrets to MS employees. Again, I see no connection to Nadella's book here.