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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. Check out this post I wrote back in 2013. First, make the process more prospective and less retrospective.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Give Yourself A Chance

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith has been nominated for the Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013. Bob asked, “Why is it that you can shoot pool, but you can’t hammer nails?” Coaching Leadership' To cast your vote (before September 1st): [link]. The stories that we tell about ourselves can turn into traps.

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