Hmm, showing value. For me, it's a simple formula: employer = customer. I don't work as an employee. I contract/consult/temp - whatever you want to call it. The valuable work finds me and I am always under evaluation. I don't require the corporate performance review (an absolute abomination, IMO). My approval comes in the form of getting paid and getting more work. The best part is that my work is actually desired; I'm not just some warm body kept on staff to maintain someone's fiefdom.

As a side, am I alone in my cynicism of corporate work and the "performance review"? Surely there must be others?? Maybe I need therapy 🙂