A Simple Idea for 2010

The year and the decade are coming to an end (three cheers for that!), which means that many people are now contemplating their New Year's resolutions. If you're among those folks, there's one resolution I hope you'll consider for your office: Radically revamping performance reviews.

New Year's resolutions and performance reviews actually have a lot in common. They're good ideas in theory, but rarely yield much in practice. They happen too infrequently to have a big impact. And in the end...