Lean Blog Interviews

Episode #117 is a conversation with Prof. Samuel A. Culbert of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Along with Daniel Pink, he is a fellow alum of Northwestern University. Prof. Culbert has a BS in Systems Engineering, the precursor of the Industrial Engineering department in which I was a student. Dr. Culbert then earned a PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA. Today, we are talking about his most recent book, Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing--and Focus on What Really Matters. Much like Dan Pink's take on incentives in the workplace, Culbert is a contrarian about the generally accepted (yet dysfunctional) practice of the "annual performance review." In his writing, Culbert calls them "corporate theatre," as well as a sham, a facade, immoral and intimidating. In the podcast, we talk about the problems and alternatives to this common management practice. To point others to this, use the simple URL: www.leanblog.org/117. You can leave comments there, as w