030. My Performance Review (and an Expense Report)

“I do not think I have met my expectations for this assignment, but based on the past six months it is clear my expectations for making you more effective were too high.”—my performance review July 94

Summertime at Microsoft was also performance review time. I was also busy trying to figure out what job to do next and was quite stressed. While this is a brief look at my own performance review, there was a great lesson for being or managing staff that I carried with me for my career. This goes beyond the Rumsfeld-like Rules I crafted and to the relati…