Performance Review Quotes

• Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Opportunity, Support, Done

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• The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, May, Performances

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• Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Memorable, Kramer, Thirsty

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• God gets the easiest performance reviews.

  Daryl Gregory

  Reviews, Performances

  Daryl Gregory (2014). “Afterparty”, p.17, Macmillan

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Boss, Stories

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• The best kind of performance review is no performance review

  Aubrey Daniels

  Kind, Reviews, Performances

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• In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you meet some of the criteria like men, or are you waiting to meet all the criteria like women do?" There's so much we can do to encourage women to take on more and believe in themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

  Rands

  Pockets, Sitting, Minutes

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