Brendan's Reflections

  • Getting Actionable Manager Feedback

    At Bazaarvoice R&D we have a peer feedback system that we use every six months.  Since it’s mostly focused on individual contributors, the questions relevant to management are too few and too broad (IMHO). e.g. … Do they provide effective and timely feedback about your performance and work with you to establish and achieve your…

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  • Google’s Project Oxygen

    Today slate had an excellent article on Google’s management: The Happiness Machine: How Google became such a great place to work.  One thing they mention is Project Oxygen, a data-analytics based approach to examining the management factors that improve performance.  As part of the project they ranked the factors (behaviors): Lots of good stuff in…

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