Bakari Malik

I would have to agree with your first statement about performance reviews being awkward. As a whole I think performance reviews are pretty ineffective, unless both the manager and the employee are dedicated to them and also if a good performance review structure is already set in place by the organization. However, I do believe that performance reviews are very critical and I think this check-in adobe software is an effective way to improve the performance review structure for an organization. Making these reviews real time allows for better communication among managers and employees, if there is an issue it will be much easier to improve on. This approach could also encourage managers and employees to be more accurate with reviews especially because it is a two way feedback system. While, I can’t necessarily think of any cons to this approach, I can think of cons of an organization. So even if this approach is in place, because of the organizational culture and the mix of individuals on a project it might not be very successful. For instance, while a good manager would appreciate employee feedback and take it into consider, a bad manager would get annoyed and possibly react poorly to the feedback. Overall, I think this is a very effective to structure performance reviews, but I also think it needs to be accepted by the right organization.

It makes sense that performance reviews are becoming more and more personalized. Real time feedback is what people need to grow; why wait so long to provide it? This new system will accelerates growth, which is best for employees and the company. Great article Bakari!

I think a risk of integrative thinking could be that it could take longer for decisions to be made because you are looking at several different perspectives and asking questions to gain a better understanding. I found this post very interesting, but I cannot think of any integrative business models that flopped. However, I’m sure as more and more people adaptive the integrative thinking thought process, there will become more and more business models that flop since people and businesses are still learning.

I did a little research to find any potential disruptive innovations that failed and I came across Polavision. Everyone is probably familiar with Polaroid and back in the 1970s the company attempted to expand into the video systems industry. At that point, the industry was shifting past Super 8 cameras into newer technologies. Polaroid’s Polavision had been in development for over a decade, but in the end, it became a massive failure. The user could only record for around two minutes and there was no sound to the video. The company had to write off the entire project and it created a deep hole for Polaroid from which they never recovered. This was an interesting example of an established company trying to break into a new industry but, instead, self imploding in the process.

I did not consider accessibility as such a needed skill, but it makes sense the more I think about it. At my internship over the summer, I think accessibility made all the difference. For certain tasks, if my manager was busy, I had to guess about certain parts of the work I was doing. If my manager was available, it was easy for me to ask him questions about how something should be done or the adequacy of my work.

I do agree that become a good manager is always hard and how important is to have a good teamwork. In BA 4101 class, there is one group assignments called group memo and it needs a lot of teamwork. I tried to manage all the group meetings and lead the discussion but one person was always missing. So I wrote the impolite email to that person and I asked someone to take care of that person. Apparently, I was wrong how I approached to her after that person talked with my other group member. She started to participated in group discussion and did all her parts on time. I realized that we all are good at something and by putting it together, this makes a great team.