Is the review necessary?

In the past few weeks I have written a series of posts about the annual review process from self review to manager input and ultimately the discussion.  I keep coming back to the same question, do we actually need this long and formal annual process?  Many corporate leaders will say yes, that this is the way they...

Why do we need to talk about this?

Here we are, we have come to the discussion stage in the annual review process, as if any of the previous two stages, self review and manager input , were not hard enough.  I made a mistake, the must-get-all-done-and-off-my-plate person I am, and went too far in the process one year and sent the review with all...