When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
This should be a monthly census: it needs to be automatic. If you&#x27;re the manager of a company and you are relying on people to say something about their co-workers, then you will miss most of the information that you could be capturing, and you will get highly biased impression of your workforce, because only a certain type of person will come forward to praise their co-worker.<p>There are various voting systems that work well, but the easiest is something like &quot;Every month, list 3 of your co-workers who did something impressive.&quot;<p>This avoids the many problems with something like the stack-rank system that Microsoft was committed to, for too many years. In that system, workers were forced to list their co-workers, not just as &quot;good&quot;, but also a certain percentage had to belong to the &quot;bad&quot; group, the lowest 30%. Most workers do not want to attack their fellow workers this way.<p>You can get all the information you need by simply letting your workers upvote each other. You should ration the upvotes so that they are meaningful. On a small team, perhaps people get 1 or 2 votes, in a big company, perhaps they got 5 or 6 votes. If you make the votes a scarce resource, you get better accuracy: people think carefully about who they should upvote.<p>There will be some workers who never get upvoted by anyone. These are bad workers. There will also be some workers who get very few votes, or who only get votes from &quot;rings&quot; they&#x27;ve formed with other workers, where they vote for each other. These are suspect workers.<p>In all cases you&#x27;ll want to apply something like the Google PageRank algorithm to the upvotes. That is, an upvote from someone who is themself highly upvoted should matter more than an upvote from someone who rarely gets upvoted.<p>I would not ban people from the article&#x27;s main idea &quot;When your coworker does great work, tell their manager&quot; however, keep in mind, if you are the manager or CTO or CEO, you need to ensure there is also a system in place that is more automatic than simply waiting for people to talk about their co-workers.