The Needle’s Eye
The Thirty-nine Steps: Why PM Has to Worry About Recency
In business, especially in human-resource management, appraisers are cautioned to evaluate an individual’s or department’s performance over a sustained period and not let ‘recency’, the most recent events (especially the turbulent ones) colour their judgment. I was reminded of this axiom by the Narendra Modi government’s current stint in Trishanku’s heaven. For those of us…