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## [Better Performance…for Free!](https://blog.selectstrategies.com/blog/better-performance-for-free)

 Posted on July 23, 2013 by [Paul O'Dea](https://blog.selectstrategies.com/blog/author/paul-odea)

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You know the management meeting. Some helpful 'process-o-crat' suggests - '*we should introduce a performance appraisal system*'. Even as I write the words, I start to get a pain in my gut. They don't work. They create frustration. No good comes from the paperwork they create. The processes they create block honest day-to-day [feedback](https://blog.selectstrategies.com/blog/giving-feedback-two-stars-one-wish) conversations. They focus on weaknesses too much.

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