A lot of terrific ideas fail at execution. Maybe they didn’t get the message? In over 25 years, Carpedia has completed more than ten thousand studies of front-line managers. Each study involves
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For accountability to work, which is necessary if you want to manage performance, people must be truly accountable for at least what they can actually manage.
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When I ask business leaders if their employees know what the company’s strategic plan is and how they contribute to it, most of them say “yes.” When I ask them, “Can each of your staff tell me how doing just 1% better contributes to the profitability of the company?” the answer is usually “No.”
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Why KPIs are crucial for organizational performance and how it helps achieve your strategic goals
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“A bird in hand is worth more than two in the bush,” is an old English proverb from the fifteenth century, and quite likely came from other cultures before that. Whether the
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Appearance, environment, history, politics, and what’s going on in someone’s personal life all shape how we judge others. So the real challenge for managers is to be fair in determining what exactly “merit” refers to when a he or she recognizes, rewards or meters out consequence.
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The trouble with ‘burning platforms’ and managerial effectiveness.
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An engaged workforce will produce more profits than a disengaged one, a lot more. The Gallup organization has been saying it for years. Companies write engagement into their value systems, build it
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Loyalty tends to be stronger to those closer to you or with whom you share some kind of common objective.
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Over the last twenty-five years, our work has involved designing solutions for a myriad of operational challenges or growth opportunities. Fundamental to our methodology is ensuring we effectively analyze the nature and
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