Performance management in the form of key performance indicators or PKIs is widely used by companies to achieve their goals. KPIs are the measures that will determine whether an employee gets rewarded by an incentive bonus at the end of the year. But there is a paradox. The KPIs should be in place to ensure […]
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Have KPIs destroyed your business?
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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Accepting responsibility for your own work
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Empowerment has been a key business buzzword for longer than a decade. In the empowered environment workers accept responsibility for their work and managers become leaders and coaches. Individual effort is often replaced with team-work where decisions about how work is done and how the process can be improved are taken collectively.
To the employee, empowerment […]
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Business strategy versus tactics
November 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Business strategy has its origins in military thinking. In his classic The Art of War written over 2000 years ago, Sun Tzu states that “Strategy is the great Work of the organisation. In situations of life or death, it is the Tao of survival or extinction. Its study cannot be neglected.” Definitions of strategy abound, […]
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