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The bar raiser is an individual appointed to serve as the last line of defense to ensure Jeff’s standards of excellence. The bar raiser has veto power over any potential hire—regardless of the candidate’s pedigree or his popularity among the rest of the hiring group.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
To ensure the ratings weren’t affected by spite after a bad date or by an ex looking to trash someone’s reputation, we used a weighting system based on the extent of the relationship (whether they were Facebook friends, quantity of messages sent, etc.). In case a user had been the target of some bad faith, just a few thumbs-down wouldn’t
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Revenue per person (RPP) is a pretty simple number to calculate.
Daniel Priestley • 24 Assets
These forms are sent to the managing partner, and the scores accumulated through the year. At year-end, the aggregate score for each partner (i.e., the evaluations of all staff members on all work supervised by that partner) are compared to the aggregate scores for the office (and firm) as a whole.
David H. Maister • Managing the Professional Service Firm
Thus, the appraiser is free to form a negative impression of the victim based not upon personal loathing but upon off-the-record insults delivered by those in a better position to be unimpressed.