Continuing on this subject – employees and employers alike should be on guard and remind themselves of the fact that EVERYONE could see what’s being written – ...

Scott Eblin in his book “The Next Level:    What Insiders About Executive Success” talks candidly about the fact that we must develop “Grounded ...

Marathoners   can run as long and as fast as possible, but in fact executives need to be more like sprinters, putting everything they’ve got into a short burst of speed ...

A top corporate executive made a comment during a plant visit that its maintenance budget looked a little high.  The next thing he knew, the plant managers had made drastic ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it a little more eloquently with “Necessity is the mother of invention”.  A weed is a   plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered.  ...

It may surprise you to learn that Southwest Airlines is the most unionized airline, with 85% of its employees in unions.    Yet the airline has a reputation for amicable ...

Hang with me for one more day while I tout a few of the fabulous lessons we as business owners, principals, managers can learn from the sensitive successes of our friends in ...

“Performance Management” everything managers do that involves leading, managing, assessing and developing their employees.  Despite the broad range of activities, ...

If you buy into the fact that this is not just an annual appraisal, then as a performance manager you believe at the very core of your being that its primary purpose is to ...

In order for a quality performance management program to stand the test of time it must be continually re-evaluted to ensure the program remains relevant and effective.  Too ...