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The Dangers of Linking Pay to Customer Feedback

Harvard Business Review

They will invent innovative ways to explain away poor performance ("Oh, problems with our vendors affected our customers and depressed our scores," "The market was down," or "The weather was bad."). It can lead to anger, finger-pointing, and defensiveness, rather than to a focus on delighting customers.