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A Personal Take on the Dirty Little Secrets Behind Performance Improvement Plans

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

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What Companies are Finally Doing to Fix Performance Management

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

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