Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
LIKE SO MANY things in life, the Harvard Business Review isn’t what it used to be. I’m not sure why, but the cutting-edge stories about the world of business that HBR used to be known for seem to be more infrequent these days. If you pinned me down I wouldn’t be able to give you
I LOVE IT WHEN an editor somewhere writes a snappy headline that makes me really want to read the story. I’ve written a few of those myself, and I know how hard they are to compose, but oh how wonderful they read when you pen one that really clicks. I found one like that in
PERFORMANCE management, at least as organizations have traditionally practiced it, is in big trouble. A recent McKinsey report didn’t pull any punches when it said: Managers and staff alike too often view performance management as time consuming, excessively subjective, demotivating, and ultimately unhelpful. In these cases, it does little to improve the performance of employees. It
