Andy Grove on Committing to Performance Management

A noteworthy quote on the topic from Mr. Grove, former President of Intel.  A great retort to the complaint we hear from far too many in management roles; that they are too busy to spend time managing the performance of their subordinates...

At Intel we estimate that a supervisor spends 5-8 hours on each employee's review, about 1/4 to 1/3 of 1% of the supervisors' work year.  If the effort expended contributes to an employee's performance even to a small extent over the course of a year, isn't that a highly worthwhile expenditure of a supervisor's time?

We are paid to manage our organizations.  To manage means to elicit better performance from members....  We managers need to stop rationalizing, and to stiffen our resolve and do what we are paid to do.