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Ensuring Executive Oversight: Building Your Change Strategy

Dean Anderson & Linda Ackerman Anderson 12/31/06

No executive in their right mind would compete in the marketplace without a clear business strategy. Yet many initiate multimillion-dollar change efforts without a clear strategy.

Workforce Performance Management: The Time Is Now

Josh Bersin 12/31/06

One of the biggest challenges in any organization is alignment. Organizations have strategic, operational and tactical goals.

It\'s Hard to Leave

Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D. 12/31/06

Life transitions are usually far more difficult than we imagine. It’s easy to talk about letting go — it’s just hard to do it.

Hyatt Corp.: Service-Oriented Performance

Brian Summerfield 12/31/06

Hyatt Corp. prides itself on customer service. To cultivate its guest-centric philosophy among its 38,000 employees, the company&rsquo;s has aligned its performance management programs to that principle.</p&

Acting Like A Professional or Acting Like a Phony?

Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D. 12/31/06

Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. When they need to motivate and inspire people, they do it.

Creating Conditions for Successful Change

Dean Anderson & Linda Ackerman Anderson 12/31/06

Have your change leaders done their up-front work? Have they removed the weeds, tilled the soil and added the necessary fertilizer to grow your change efforts successfully?

Great Expectations, Great Performance

Harold D. Stolovitch, Ph.D. 12/31/06

I directly consult with organizations and run seminars on improving workplace performance. What strikes me is how frequently the issues raised across significantly different workplace settings resemble each other.

Increasing the Value of Performance Appraisals

Tracy Martin 12/31/06

Ideally, performance appraisals should provide feedback, motivate employees, identify top performers and foster communication. But often, they have the opposite effect.

Domino's Pizza: Delivering Top Performance, One Slice at a Time

Kellye Whitney 12/31/06

Domino's Pizza delivered 400 million pizzas in 2004. It's Patti Wilmot's job to ensure that the team that feeds America's pizza cravings knows what to do.

Nuisance or Necessity: Shaping Performance Management Perceptions

Sam S. Adkins 12/31/06

Shaping the perceptions of performance management is about changing the way organizations think about managing performance.

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