What four problems underlie all performance reviews?
What's the one goal every performance review should try to achieve?
Why should companies avoid linking pay to performance?
A typical business book would waste many hours of your precious time trying to answer these questions. Severts gives it all to you in seventy short and amusing pages, including five radical ideas you can experiment with in your own organization. That's why he calls this a "business pamphlet."
See why Steven Levitt says, "Severts is the smartest, most creative business thinker I know."