Jul 31, 2025
🚨 Unpopular Opinion: Performance reviews are broken. And you might be the reason your team is stuck.
We obsess over past metrics—quarterly KPIs, last year’s wins, yesterday’s numbers. But here’s the truth: backward-looking evaluations don’t build future-ready teams.
🎯 In sports, we reward players for what they did, not what they will do. Sound familiar? That same flawed logic is baked into how we manage talent in the workplace.
💡 What if we flipped the script?
✅ What if we evaluated people based on their trajectory, not just their track record?
✅ What if we rewarded a growth mindset, not just past output?
✅ What if we stopped squeezing golden eggs and started nurturing the goose?
🔥 In this week’s episode of The Leadership Quicktake, I break down why future-focused performance management isn’t just better—it’s essential.