Why smart employees should love, nay, DEMAND performance management
February 27, 2006
With all this talk of the downsides of performance management going on in the blogosphere, I thought I might take a look at this from the employee perspective. Hey wait, I AM an employee! Thusly: Some reasons why I, Max Goldman,…
Performance measurement decreases performance?
February 27, 2006
Here’s an interesting article called “Americans work more, seem to accomplish less” that prompted an equally interesting discussion on the TRDEV Yahoo discussion group. The gist? Whether the mere act of measuring performance itself has a negative impact on employee morale, and thus productivity.
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It’s not the foundation, its the houses
February 24, 2006
Our good friend Dubs thinks performance management is wrong. Not just broken. Not just in need of improvement. Flat out a flawed paradigm for improving company performance. Perhaps predictably, I find it difficult to agree. I’m not saying that the current concept of Performance Management…
Destroying your career in one easy step
February 24, 2006
I was forwarded this soon-to-be infamous email exchange between a spurned hiring lawyer and an uppity law school graduate today. It’s remarkable how little emotional intelligence is displayed on both sides. Sometimes it takes a little effort and common sense to…
I see your 400k, and raise you a million
February 23, 2006
I was wandering around the Internet today as I tend to do. It’s a nice place, you should visit. Anyhoo – I landed at the SalesForce.com website. Anytime I’m looking for enterprise software communications best practice, I end up there. It’s…
You’re a bad manager and everyone knows it
February 23, 2006
This one should have made it into our worstreview contest.
Via Regina comes a performance review that perhaps many employees would love to give, but don’t. There are probably a few lessons to be derived from this, but at least one is…
Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong - New York Times
February 23, 2006
Performance and talent management in healthcare is a big issue. Yesterday, an NYT article talked about the incentive structure in medical professions. Essentially, healthcare professionals are paid to “perform tests and to do surgery and to dispense drugs.” Not to…
Divining vendor intentions
February 9, 2006
In business, but especially in the technology world, you can sometimes figure out what a company is planning by looking through their job descriptions. As an example, here’s an old post from one of my favorite gadget blogs, engadget, about…
Just for fun: lousy bosses
February 8, 2006
Our very own Elaine Chen (product manager extraordinaire) pointed me to this just for fun article at MSN Careers. Since we just finished up our contest at worstreview about the worst reviews ever, I figured I’d point you over to some stories about…
The global talent battlefield
February 8, 2006
As per The McKinsey Quarterly – #5 on the list of top trends to watch in 2006:
The battlefield for talent will shift. Ongoing shifts in labor and talent will be far more profound than the widely observed migration of jobs to…
