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Let's Abolish Self-Appraisal

Harvard Business Review

In researching my book How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals , I found study after study that consistently demonstrated that individuals are notoriously inaccurate in assessing their own performance, and the poorer the performer, the higher (and more inaccurate) the self-appraisal. The review meeting is a discussion, not a negotiation.

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