Viewed in McKinsey Out of the last 15 years, companies have never shaken up their organizational charts as much as they did in 2023, as our data clearly shows. Does this revelation surprise us? Not really. For the authors, Alex Camp, Arne Gast, Drew Goldstein, and Brooke Weddle at McKinsey, it’s a telling sign of… More
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No one likes annual performance reviews—Here’s how to get rid of them
Viewed in Bloomberg In an era where the divide within organizations between employers and employees has seemingly never been greater with divisions over where work should be done, how much employees should be compensated for their work in an inflationary economy, and other significant questions that have largely emerged over the past year, there might… More
Read more...Questions to Get the Most out of Your Midyear Review
Viewed in Korn Ferry Midyear and annual performance reviews have become more formalized processes in recent years. On the surface, that may seem positive, and it is: You can be reasonably confident a review will occur, and you can be reasonably confident the process will be similar to that of your peers. But regular reviews… More
Read more...The Boss Factor: Making the World a Better Place through Workplace Relationships
Viewed in McKinsey & Company As a growing number of companies reflect on their obligations to society’s betterment beyond their traditional focus on providing desirable products and services at a profit, they need not look far from home. “Because of the connection between happiness at work and overall life satisfaction, improving employee happiness could make… More
Read more...Good Leadership is an Act of Kindness
Viewed in Harvard Business Review What attributes define the successful executive and manager? Hard skills, compassion and kindness It seems like we move through evolutionary periods in business management that emphasize hard skills and metric-driven performance only to later discover that we’ve emphasized them at the expense of soft skills and need to be reminded… More
Read more...How to create a workplace that actually inspires passion
Viewed in Harvard Business Review Companies of the world confront many challenges. None are likely greater than the ongoing question of how they will navigate their way back to normalcy (if that is even possible at all) from the world’s hugely damaging coronavirus pandemic. Yet one additional cost of the pandemic is that it is… More
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