Thursday, April 8, 2010

Book Giveaway of Get Rid of Performance Review by Samuel A. Culbert and Lawrence Rout

Valerie and Hatchette Book Group are sponsoring a giveaway of Get Rid of Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing -- and Focus on What Really Matters by Samuel A. Culbert and Lawrence Rout!



About the Book:
The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it. Until now... Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers on notice that -- with the performance review as their weapon of choice -- they have built a corporate culture based on intimidation and fear. Teaming up with Wall Street Journal Senior Editor Lawrence Rout, he shows us why performance reviews are bogus and how they undermine both creativity and productivity.

Listen to an excerpt of Get Rid of Performance Review! at http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780446556057.htm

About the Authors:
Samuel A. Culbert is Professor of Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is the recipient of the American Association of Publishers Best Management Book of the Year award and the Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award.

Larry Rout is an editor at the Wall Street Journal.

CONTEST DETAILS:

To enter please share why you'd like to win this book.

Rules:
1. Please include your email address, so that I can contact you if you win. No email address, no entry.
2. You must be a follower to join the contest.

The contest is limited to US and Canada only. No P.O. boxes. The contest ends at noon on May 5, 2010.

Thank you so much Valerie and Hatchette for sponsoring this giveaway!

12 comments:

  1. Performance Reviews are so prevalent in companies today. I would love to read the author's views which are the exact antithesis of the trend.

    I'm a follower.

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  2. I would like to share this with family and friends who supervise others but rarely find anyone worthy of a raise. GFC follower.
    enyl(at)inbox(dot)com

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  3. I am a follower.

    Thank you,

    Christine
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  4. I would love to read this book as our state is considering going to merit based pay for teachers which I feel is wrong. There is alot to consider in something like this that the evaluators are not aware of or lack the skills to be an evaluator.

    Thank you,

    Christine
    womackcm@sbcglobal.net

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  5. I'm interested in hearing what the author has to say.

    misusedinnocence@aol.com

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  6. I'd like to win it for my best friend who can certainly relate to this book, when last year she got her first bad performance review in 18 years of working there

    chirth7@yahoo.com

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  7. I am a follower of Starting Fresh

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  8. This is the new hot thing to "grade" workers on..I'd love to win it to read about it...thanks for the chance.

    kdhaney at gmail dot com

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  9. I'd like to read this because I'm interested in different management approaches.
    rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOT)com

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  10. Because I don't want any more performance reviews.
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  11. I am going to be a business major and this book would be interesting to read.
    I am a follower.
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  12. I would really like a little more insite about performance reviews, also I feel that they do take away from the employee's creative freedom by keeping a foot continually hovering over employees.

    cams1031@gmail.com and i'm a follower

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