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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Watch this short video for a great story illustrating this problem in action: There may be cases in which incentives work only as intended, but I suspect they are relatively rare. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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Recruiting is Broken, Succession Planning is The Future

Strategy Driven

They’re not happy with the results that their recruiters are producing, or at the very least, they’ve come to terms with what their recruiters can realistically produce. Recruiting is like a hammer. This means that leadership development must be on a very short list of an organization’s top strategic priorities. Keep it simple.