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The performance review stopped being an HR ritual and became a legal document. Stack ranking is back. Layoffs run as scheduled programs. The software wants to write your reviews for you. And the words you put in a review this year become the explanation your employer hands to a pay-equity regulator, and to the attorneys reading discovery, next year. Most managers walk into review season unarmed for any of it. The Performance Machine is the field manual for the system as it runs right now.

Most business books about consulting are written by people who have never made payroll. This one isn't. Adam Mattis started his first consulting company in a college apartment and named it after an empty liquor bottle. Over the next twenty years he built firms, sold them, watched the pieces get absorbed into one of the largest professional services organizations on the planet, then sat on the other side of the table as the executive deciding which firms to trust. Small Firm, Big Impact is what he learned in between, written so you can skip the tuition he paid the expensive way.