It sounds like I struck a nerve. My contention is that it’s possible to do an evaluation without destroying others. I also believe that we all want to improve – as you said – and that we all have blind spots. We can certainly improve through reflection and self-evaluation, but the greatest improvement comes when we hear the feedback from others, delivered in the right way. It’s the wrong ways in which evaluation is done that makes it a “bad word,” not the concept of evaluation.