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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Designed to measure performance in order to determine whether employees have met their goals and thus have contributed to the organization’s results, they are usually highly structured, formulaic, and data-oriented.

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Complimentary Resource – Using Technology to Increase Small Business Productivity

Strategy Driven

Using Technology to Increase Small Business Productivity. Learn how you can save time and money by using these four technology trends to support your small business. In this eBook, you will find valuable information about some of the latest technology trends that can help support your business by saving you time, money and resources.

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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Complimentary Resource – Big Business Marketing on a Small Business Budget

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Complimentary Resource – Performance Management in a Small-Business Culture. Complimentary Resource – Take the Small Business Performance Review Process from Painful to Productive. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Your Brain Will Thank You Kill Your Performance Ratings strategy+business No one likes performance reviews, and one reason is that we''ve seemingly locked ourselves into a doctrine of numerical rankings. It’s not the high performer, but the senior executive who oversees the ranking system."

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise.

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Ditch the Notebook in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Look back on 2012 and it's likely that you're staring into a tunnel where the images get blurrier as they get further away. You can make 2012 the last year that you forget, if you this year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. But what was the name of that restaurant? February: Create a happy space.