CORPORATE SELF-ABUSE: The Terrible Management Technique That Cost Microsoft Its Creativity. “One former Microsoft engineer says that his performance reviews were ‘always much less about how I could become a better engineer and much more about my need to improve my visibility among other managers.’”
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