Avoid false fairness in performance reviews

- [Host] We had a lawyer on the show previously, I believe it was Eliot Wagonheim, who mentioned that performance reviews in court cases for wrongful termination are never brought up by the employer saying, "As you can see, judge and/or jury, "there is a long history of underperformance." But they are always brought up by the defense, "Time and time again, the performance review said, "'Met expectations.'" And I think that is just a super clear, official, institutionalized way that you see this with regard to, is this management really happening on a meaningful basis, or is it not at all? - [Guest] Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, we call that false fairness, false nice guy syndrome, and avoidance of conflict, and what happens is that if you're not managing people every day, every other day, once a week, guiding, directing, supporting, and coaching them, tracking performance in writing, then what happens is, the review…