On a recent Monday morning, I was preparing for my weekly staff meeting. Item #1 on the agenda was a discussion about an upcoming review cycle, where everybody at Upstart would receive a performance score based on feedback from their peers and manager. Though I had yet to begin the process of reviewing my leadership team, I had an intuitive sense of how things would fall. Without being consciously aware of it, I had developed a model for how I measure and evaluate the performance of my lieutenants.
