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Is It Time For A Peer-Reviewed Bonus System?

LDRLB

The odd-jobs start-up, Coffee & Power, distributed each of its 15 employees 1,200 stock options at the beginning of 2012 and encouraged them to distribute them among co-workers in whatever ways they saw fit. An employee could give all her options to one co-worker, or divide it among a group of co-workers they believe really hustled.

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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

The evaluation report is a compilation of feedback from managers, peers, and juniors. Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Consider Ed Ludwig, CEO of Becton Dickenson , who has made it a practice to foster honest conversations about gaps between his leadership team's desired direction and the organizational reality by empowering a task force of his best people to "speak truth to power." Given this challenge, what can business schools do?