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- Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
- Jack Welch is famous for implementing GE's brutal performance evaluation, where employees are ranked against each other and the bottom 10 percent of the list gets booted every year. Such "forced ranking" systems have long been controversial, with experts divided on if they are truly effective. New research from the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- What Is Forced Ranking?
- Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- How Confident Are You? Take the Test
- Here's a quick guide to seeing where you land on the confidence spectrum, plus advice for improving your game. Overconfident ...
- Articles 2009-04-21
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- Wharton: Hands Off Employee Perks
- One of the books on my summer reading desk is a page-turner about the mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin back in 1905. After taking over by force, more than 700 sailors roamed the Black Sea spreading terror for nearly two weeks. What caused the mutiny? Cheap pursers aboard the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Employers: When This Buyer's Market Ends, What Will You Do?
- Sure, the recessions stinks. But for employers, the silver lining has been that it's created a deeper talent pool. More unemployment = more top-notch people looking to land at your company -- often, at a significant discount. But what will happen when recovery hits? ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Can Loyalty Prevent a Layoff?
- If you're a demonstrably loyal employee, would you be spared during a layoff? That's the premise tackled by Jack Welch in a recent column on his The Welch Way blog. Welch writes, "For starters, we can certainly tell you when loyalty feels like the most important...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Is Shareholder Value a Dumb Idea? Experts Debate
- The Find: Jack Welch made waves when he called shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world;" now two eminent business professors go head to head over whether he was right. The Source: Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill University vs. Colin Mayer, dean of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- The Irrational Side of Change Management
- Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act. In 1996, John Kotter published Leading Change. Considered by many to be the seminal work...
- Articles 2009-05-15
- Manage Your Manager
- Manage Your ManagerSuggestionI found this video VERY helpful and succinct. It would be beneficial to have a written transcript to utilize for talking points.Thanks!Manager stylesGreat Info. The best advice was know your manager style. How they like to receive information. This I believe is the key to the relationship....
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- How to Manage the Media
- For too long, American CEOs have operated with a policy of benign neglect toward the media. But recent CEO downfalls and PR disasters prove that strategy no longer works. To survive in the current media environment, here's how smart chief execs are making PR part of corporate strategy. ...
- Articles 2008-03-28
- 4 Recession Resolutions for Leaders
- The dawn of the new year (happy 2009, by the way!) often inspires people to jettison the old and welcome the new, break bad habits, and turn over a new leaf. But with the economy looking grim and job security increasingly perilous for many, it can be tough to think...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
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