Month: July 2014
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Who’s Afraid of Performance Management?
I’ve been in a couple of federal agencies where performance management was a hot topic and every manager was afraid to touch it for fear of a grievance. I’ve been in meetings where the discussion focused on “rooting out the dead wood,” and I said, what about recognizing the good wood and I got the…
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Everything And The Opposite
People can do what they can do. And so I wonder why we ask them to do everything. We should let them be, and flop and flounder and flail until they find out what they’re good at. We should hire for attitude and train for technical skill. Domino’s Pizza has a great ad out on…
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