Salesforce announces New Year job cuts The New Year has not started well for workers at Salesforce – 10% of whom are set to become the latest casualties of … Read more
When Everyone is ‘Above Average’ No One Is
Note: This is the last of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. Monday’s article … Read more
The Case For Junking 9 Box Assessments
The “9 box” is one of the most popular assessment methods in talent management. I first encountered the 9 box in the 1990s when it was a key part of GE’s … Read more
Smaller Companies Are Just Better At Performance Management
Although my professional experience is in very large organizations, we now work with smaller clients. This work has helped to change my paradigm about … Read more
Why Employee Rankings Aren’t Evil
Each year’s Harvard Medical School graduating class includes one doctor who is ranked at the bottom of the class. To be clear, this individual was the … Read more
The 8 Fatal Flaws of Performance Management
Adobe did it. Gap, Netflix, and GE are doing it. Microsoft played with it. Yahoo is being challenged in court for not doing it. Revamping performance … Read more
Last Word: Jack Welch Says Micromanagement Is Good – and I Believe Him
Leave it to Jack Welch, father of the famous rank-and-yank system, to defend micromanagement. The former General Electric CEO is known for a lot of things, … Read more
At Last, Here’s a Winning Answer for Managing Performance
Employers need a restart on performance management. Picture Sisyphus pushing that rock. A search on the question, “Do appraisals do more harm than … Read more
10 Productive Things HR Can Do Instead of Performance Management
My former employer announced recently that they are doing away with forced rankings and the annual performance management process. Hallelujah! I … Read more