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Writing

I write every Sunday about pay, performance, motivation, and the distance between how we manage people and how people actually work.

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Whoever Writes the Questions

The fundamental attribution error, and why the person who sets the terms looks more capable than the person measured against them. Third and final in a series on whether individual performance can be...

The Rater in the Rating

The idiosyncratic rater effect, and why a performance score measures the person who assigned it more than the person who earned it. Second in a series on whether individual performance can be measured.

The Self-fulfilling Rating

The Pygmalion effect, and how a performance rating helps produce the result it claims to record. First in a series on whether individual performance can be measured at all.

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