Correction: Templates for Impactful Performance Review Comments
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Business Writing
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
"Feedback is information about the past delivered in a form that is useful for the future. If it does not meet both criteria, it is not feedback. It is commentary." Kim Scott, Radical Candor [...] "The difference between a review that changes someone's career and one they forget in a week is specificity. Vague praise and vague criticism both slide off the memory." Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules [...] "The feedback you give employees is a record of how much you have actually observed. Managers who cannot write specific feedback have usually not been watching specifically." Josh Bernoff, Writing Without Bullshit
A useful test: feedback should be information about the past delivered in a form that is useful for the future. If it does not meet both criteria, it functions more as commentary than as actionable feedback. [...] The difference between a review that changes someone's career and one they forget in a week often comes down to specificity. Vague praise and vague criticism both tend to slide off the memory. [...] The feedback a manager gives is, in a sense, a record of how much they have actually observed. Managers who consistently write vague feedback have often not been watching closely enough to be specific.
Why this is better
Fabricated direct quote attributed to Kim Scott from 'Radical Candor' - this exact quote could not be verified in the actual book or any secondary source.; Fabricated direct quote attributed to Marcus Buckingham from 'First, Break All the Rules' - this exact quote could not be verified in the actual book (co-authored with Curt Coffman) or any secondary s; Fabricated direct quote attributed to Josh Bernoff from 'Writing Without Bullshit' - this exact quote could not be verified in the actual book or any secondary source.
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