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Side note: what generation do you think started handing out trophies to everyone because parents couldn't stand their kids not getting anything?

No one I know raised on "everyone gets an award" has done anything but mock it.

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I tend to agree with people mocking this pov, but working as a university instructor… holy hell! There really are some very entitled and shameless people out there. I doubt it’s generational, though.

I was a university instructor during grad school back in the 90s, there were plenty of entitled and shameless people back then too.

Amusingly the Forte system itself is very much an implementation of “everyone gets an award.”

Every peer review calls out someone’s “superpower” and the Leadership Principle they excel at. (It also has some suggestions for improvement.)

There’s really very little to complain about in Amazon’s process except for the curve fitting.

It’s near consensus if not full consensus that Amazons number one problem is the URA and work environment that fosters. Even Microsoft reversed course on this after Nadella took over. It’s what I think has lead to their high attrition issues

URA = "unregretted attrition" for anyone confused.

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