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Calibrations Have a Context-Collapse Problem
- zdosb 1y ago“Don’t blame the players, change the game.”
- throwaway98797 1y agoexcellent write up advice ultimately boils down to work harder in judging talent. everyone wants a single word answer oh sally is great, john is okay. the truth it’s hard work to right level people. no one gets it right. systems get co-opted by ruthless people for personal gain. only hard and consistent work by leadership can reduce, but not eliminate the harm
- zdosb 1y agoCannot agree more. And it's also surprising how much of this information about the calibration process in its own is unknown to people in the org.
- PoignardAzur 1y agoI get the point that the author is making, that any given employee's work is more complex and difficult than you might guess from a short summary, but... Well, that's the case for everybody? At the end of the day the company still needs a way to judge how valuable any given employee was. The article complains that managers end up competing on who plays the calibration game better, yet a lot of suggestions at the end boil down to "managers should play the calibration game harder". I'm not sure there's a systemic solution to this.
- bilbo-b-baggins 1y agoThis kind of thing is why I hate working for larger corporations. There’s a tipping point where an organization grows large enough that you can no longer trust your colleagues. It’s a weird inversion where managers advocate for employees that act favorably towards them when everyone else in the trenches know they are awful or incompetent.
- djoldman 1y ago> In theory, calibration is supposed to be the sanity check that keeps us from grading on a curve, but too often it’s just performance review theater. Performance reviews' primary value to a business is to defend against lawsuits.