Appraisal Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect -…

— Daniel H. Pink

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

— Jack Welch

“Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result”

— Vivek Thangaswamy

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

— George Jean Nathan

“We needed a greater sense of urgency.” So the management team decided that field managers would not be eligible for promotion unless their branch…

— Harvard Business School Press

“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said, secondary factors…

— Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Good managers have a bias for action.

— Tom Peters

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what…

— Richard Branson

The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes... It's very simple: Either…

— Tim Armstrong

Promotions are a costly affair and most producers shy away from budgeting for that purpose.

— Rockline Venkatesh

“Executives also owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. It may not be…

— Harvard Business School Press