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- the facilitation of high achievement by employees. Performance management involves enabling people to perform their work to the best of their ability, meeting and perhaps exceeding targets and standards. Performance...
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- Researchers to Managers: Employees CAN Change
- The Find: Managers who believe in their employees' capacity to change and grow are more likely to provide them support and to spot changes in performance than those who believe you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The Source: "Managers' Implicit Assumptions About Personnel" in...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Management Science Says Rock Star Performance Isn't Portable
- The Find: Poaching star performers from rivals is unlikely to yield the hoped-for results. The Source: Management Insights from the July issue of the journal Management Science. The Takeaway: The researchers analyzed the performance of star analysts over a period of nine years to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- FireTune Your Browser
- As we know from last month's poll, most of you guys tip Firefox as your browser of choice. You like it because of its openness, customizability and security features, and because it's less prone to bugs and crashes. Now there's a way to get even more performance out of the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Choosing Strategies for Change
- Faced with stiffer competition and dizzying technological advances, companies often must change course to stay competitive. But most change initiatives backfire. That's because many managers take a one-size-fits-all approach to change. They assume they can combat resistance, a notorious obstacle, by involving...
- Articles 2008-07-18
- Commercial Governance Ratings in Question
- The Find: Governance advisory firms claim they can predict the future performance of a public company by analyzing public data, but new research claims the value of their ratings is dubious at best. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Teamwork As Performance Art
- A New York magazine article about a public scene-making collective called Improv Everywhere had me applauding the chutzpah and the sheer team-leading genius that allows groups of people in New York City to work together seamlessly to create unusual (and in some cases, awe-inspiring) public performance pieces. Here's a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- A Corporate Headquarters That Undoes Dilbert
- Do you work in a building designed to keep you energized, more productive, and that tells your company mission to all staff and visitors within a few steps of entering? I suspect most of us work in Dilbert's Cubicle World. So it's intriguing to see the HQ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Wanna Show Managerial Determination? Cross Your Arms
- The Find: If you’re stuck with a challenging problem and looking for an extra dose of perseverance, simply crossing your arms might help. The Source: “The Effect of Arm Crossing on Persistence and Performance,†a new study in the European Journal of Social Psychology, cited in the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Employee Reviews: How to Keep Up a Top Talent Pool
- The employee performance review is an anxious situation on both sides of the table. The Secrets of Performance Appraisal Source: The Conference Board How do America’s best organizations handle performance management? This industry-wide...
- Articles 2008-05-13
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Is the asterisk coming to the business world? The use of performance-enhancing drugs has clogged up the sports world for the last couple of years, but steroid and human growth hormone are not the only way to get a chemical advantage. What about the brain drugs, those...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- How to Become a CEO, in Three Easy Steps
- The Find: An HR consultancy has laid out the key skills for each rung on the career ladder, providing a road map for managers on their way up. The Source: The recent "Pulse on Leaders" study from Personnel Decisions International PDI. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Sales Performance Management
- Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly Corporation, explains why sales performance management is the "holy grail" of post-sales data and why companies need it to improve sales performance.
- Videos 2008-05-05
- Sales Performance Management and Compensation
- Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly Corporation, talks about how sales compensation plans drive behavior and improve performance. Xactly sells on-demand sales performance management solutions.
- Videos 2008-05-01
- Great Expectations Lead to Great Performance
- The Find: When managers have high expectations for employees, they're three times more likely to get superior performance. The Source: Research from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management. The Takeaway: If you want exceptional results, forget cracking the whip and running down...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Are Your Tax Dollars Going to Green Washing?
- The Find: The environmental performance of companies participating in voluntary environmental programs is 7.7 percent worse than companies that don't participate; if participating companies self-monitor their performance is 24 percent worse. The Source: A new study of more than 30,000 firms from researchers at George Mason University....
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Good Governance Is Good For the Bottom Line
- The Find: Companies with excellent corporate governance records report 18 percent higher stock returns than those with poor records. The Source: A new report from the Association of British Insurers The Takeaway: Researchers at ABI studied over 600 public companies in the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The New BNET1: Daily Dose of Management Savvy
- If you haven't checked out our revamped BNET1 blog, you're missing out. Each day on BNET, London-based reporter Jessica Stillman links users to an important new management study, white paper, or other source online, then distills it down to its must-read essentials: The key "find" or insight most critical...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Delta Tells Mesa to Take Its 50 Seaters Elsewhere
- Airlines have made it quite clear that they have little interest in keeping 50 seat jets around. Shockingly (yeah, right) the combination of high fuel costs and 50 seats doesn't really work very well from a per-seat cost perspective. Now, Delta has come up with a unique way...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- A New Game Plan for C Players
- The Idea in Brief How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in three years? Clothing retailer The Limited,...
- Articles 2008-03-10
- Scott Painter: Performance-based Marketing
- Scott Painter is former CEO of CarsDirect.com and founder and CEO of Zag, a technology and services platform that allows consumers to complete the entire auto-buying transaction online. Painter talks about his passion for e-commerce and why it's important to transform the way vehicles are sold on the Internet.
- Videos 2008-03-08
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