a letter to appraiser before the discussion

There are two styles of management and both might have achieved substantially in the past. I appreciate that you have taken out time to provide feedback based on your perception and style of management.
We have differing outlook towards tools and their need. I need to justify the improvement in productivity and why we should use them and thus it should make sense. There is a time and complexity level before a tool usage starts to make sense.

These styles can converged if handled sensitively. Thus we can create a hopeful story. All can benefit from each other's style of working and achieve our targets more efficiently.

Targets should be clearly defined and set in beginning. Bottom-line should be clear and achievable. Priority needs to be set for development teams and urgency of each item has to be properly defined.

What is your expectations? Is it clearly defined in beginning? Or is it a moving target, ambiguous and constantly changing? If you assign 5 task with equal priority and we have limited resources and time then all cannot be completed in time.

I will take feedback from people I have interacted to boost my confidence and strengthen my self-belief. Its not an assurance for approving my style of management but to encourage you to look and appreciate that even this works.

One style of management is freestyle and its encouraging for research and dev kind of projects that will allow creative freedom to learn with high level of motivation and drive.

Second style of management is very methodical and process rich and is required for timely completion of projects above a certain size (both team and duration).

Your recommendations were direct with disregard to individual's preference and style of working. This created one major conflict.