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What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow

Harvard Business Review

The best managers know they’re supposed to give the people they lead challenging assignments to keep them interested and engaged. But what do you do when someone you manage gets to the top of their learning curve — and doesn’t really want to be pushed any further? David Lewis Taylor/Getty Images.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.” It came from a leader within the practice.

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The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning.

Strategy Driven

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Most management subsystems succeed or fail according to the clarity of goals of the overall organization.

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The Big Picture of Business – Setting, Meeting, and Benefiting from Goals

Strategy Driven

Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. People caught in activity traps shrink, rather than grow, as human beings.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Sell management-clients on acquiring more returns on their investments, not just on making further investments. Reduce management’s risk in doing business with you. Acquire an upper-management mindset. Human resources development.