Digital Disruption

If you’re like me, you are probably in the midst of evaluating your employees, doing 360 degree reviews of team members and writing year-end reviews.

Most companies have a detailed review process and the more enlightened ones use a balanced scorecard to evaluate and reward people.  Most of the successful scorecards track financial contribution (impact on P&L), ability to work well with teams, quality of work / deliverables and contributions out to the community beyond the workplace.

With a decided touch-in-cheek, I’d like to introduce a new simplified evaluation matrix that you may find useful:

• The star performers are in the upper-right quadrant – they are brilliant contributors to the success of the organization and do so without being assholes. They fit in with the culture of the organization and understand that in today’s economy a fundamental skillset is the ability to communicate, collaborate and contribute in a network, matrixed environment.
• The difficult quadrant is on the upper-left – Assholes who are brilliant. They don’t fit in with the culture and are not team players. You spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with their egos BUT they produce brilliant work.  What to do here? Let them get away with repeated bad behavior because they are so smart and come up with brilliant ideas / brilliant work? I say “no”. You may disagree.
• I’ll let you decide what to do with the two bottom quadrants- that depends on the nature of your business

I’d love to get your comments, opinions and feedback.  Please enter them below and let’s get a conversation going.

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