Hardly a cracking story. One example of fraud being used to blame WFH. I mean, come on.

“The Mona Lisa has been stolen! See, this is what happens when you show classic paintings to the public! CLOSE ALL MUSEUMS!!”

FFS

You’re better than that Jessica

Essential reading this 👆

Don’t they already have this?

This is a fantastic book, so fascinating the threads we build our lives around without even knowing or thinking about them.

It’s a line that says a lot about the people who say it and the worst aspects of human nature.

Why we would build performance systems around it is beyond me. Your blog cuts to the reasons why.

I remember the really bad old days of relative assessment a big department introduced mainly because some people complained in the staff survey about poor performance not being seen to be dealt with as though people needed to be put in stocks.

Dreadful system with predictable, toxic outcomes.

I’ve always thought this, at best people pay lip service to performance management and at worst, it can harm. Even “light touch” systems spend inordinate amounts of time on it to little effect.

No system is perfect but if you want to build high performing teams maybe start with the teams.

The real Northern Lights

Wow

Been walking through there for years and never really seen it, great pic

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Long gone unfortunately

I wish I’d seen this advice a few weeks ago 😭