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Ideas for Impact #13: Four Questions for Employee Performance Appraisals
Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the “Father of Modern Management,” and one of the most influential management philosophers of the modern era. In “The Effective Executive,” Peter Drucker advocates that a manager focus on an employee’s strengths when appraising … Continue reading
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Ideas for Impact #5: Ethel Romm on Building Consensus
Ethel Grodzins Romm was the President and CEO of NITON Corporation, a maker of scientific equipment. NITON is currently part of Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO.) Ethel is an accomplished engineer, entrepreneur and author. Guy Kawasaki features Ethel Romm in … Continue reading
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Ideas for Impact: A New Series of Articles
Quite a few regular readers of my Right Attitudes blog and its predecessor website have proposed that I use this forum to share ideas and insights from various sources. In response to your requests, I am announcing a new series … Continue reading
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Recognizing People: Six Steps
One of our most significant aspirations is that people around us value our contributions at work, home and elsewhere. We desire that our supervisors, friends, or family members appreciate our good work; we are hungry for their compliments. Praising and … Continue reading
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You don’t praise people? What are your excuses?
“The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.” * William James All of us have an innate desire to be appreciated and valued for our contributions at work, home and elsewhere. However, we often fail to recognize the … Continue reading
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Performance Management: What is Forced Ranking?
Reader Sriram from Chennai (India) asks, A multinational recently acquired our 35-employee software testing company. Our personnel department sent an email on how this purchase affects us. The email mentioned a new forced ranking system for performance evaluation. Can you … Continue reading
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The Skills-Attitudes Competence Model
While poking around the internet, I recently bumped into a few articles that refer to a study by either Harvard or Stanford or both that concluded that 85% of one’s success at work is due to his/her attitudes and just … Continue reading
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